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ThatDamnedPanda -> RE: I found It! I found it!! Where healthcare is a "Right" in the US... (5/14/2009 9:52:33 AM)
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ORIGINAL: philosophy
...and yet other countries around the world do manage to put together a nationalised health systemthat works. So what's the problem in the States? Is the Federal Government institutionally less competent than, say, France?
That's one a' them there, uh, rhetorical questions, right?
Seriously, though - interestingly enough, that's exactly the argument that has been successfully employed by the conservatives who oppose health care reform, even though - remarkably!- they were the ones in power for 8 of the years they were asserting it! I remember seeing Bush himself making this very point - paraphrasing here, but it was something along the lines of, "Do you really trust the federal government to manage something this complex?" In other words, "Do you idiots really trust us not to fuck this up?" Which of course was an entirely valid question, whether he realized it or not, but amazing nonetheless for its audacity as much as its effectiveness.
I've always found it nothing short of flabbergasting that the very same people who strut around punding their chests and bellowing, "we're Americans, we're the greatest country on Earth and we can do anything better than anyone else in the world" are the ones who, as soon as health care is mentioned, will turn on a dime and say, "Well, no, we could never possibly do that as well as the French or the Cubans." Without a trace of irony. It's stupefying to me how easily these people are manipulated, like children in a day care center.
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