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philosophy -> RE: McCain supports Palin for president ... sort of (4/1/2009 12:14:03 PM)
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ORIGINAL: CruelNUnsual
..why would a company in any sector pay for private health care for its workers when they are already paying for nationalized health care?
There is only one reason...NHS doesnt provide care as well as the private system.
.....it's so funny when people think they've made a point but are just hanging on to their blinkers with both hands.
The NHS provides good quality care for everyone. That's its purpose. It achieves it purpose as well as anything that big can. However, should you want even better care than good quality then feel free to pay for it.
The alternative system is that only those who can pay for care, or are lucky enough to qualify for charity, get the care they need. If you fall through the cracks, then tough titties.
Now, you and others clearly see health care as a simple consumerist concept. Heath care a a commodity. Essentially its monetarism, a concept introduced to the UK by Thatcher and hated by 99% of the population.
Some of us don't see health care in that way. Unlike Thatcher we do believe there is such a thing as society......and that we are perfectly able, perhaps even oblgated, to do things for the common good.
Now we can differ in our opinion of what a society ought to do or not do. That's all good. But when you insist the the NHS is a failure you're wholly, factually and apparently wilfully wrong.
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