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- From: fyl@fylz.wa.com (Phil Hughes)
- Subject: Re: Trust Me - I'm from the Government to help you
- Organization: FYL
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 06:55:35 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.065535.27055@fylz.wa.com>
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- Walter Bright (bright@nazgul.UUCP) wrote:
- : In article <1993Jan21.054210.14736@fylz.wa.com> fyl@fylz.wa.com (Phil Hughes) writes:
- : /This example has nothing to do with what we are talking about. We are
- : /not talking about government provided health care (doctors working for
- : /the government, hospitals owned by the government, etc) we are talking
- : /about having one insurance provider (logically the state or federal
- : /government) paying the bills. Quite different from how the VA works.
- :
- : We already got a single insurer for retirement benefits. It's called
- : Social Security. I've never heard anyone argue that SS saves money over
- : private retirement insurance plans.
-
- Nope. We have a single *provider* of retirement benefits. If we
- distributed retirement benefits in the form of food and retired people
- could only get if from government stores, that would be the same.
-
- I am certainly not impressed with the was SSA runs but we (the voters)
- have allowed it to run that way. The problem isn't inefficiency, it
- is the fact that money is paid out of income rather than investing
- income. I see two reasons why this will be a non-problem with
- government health insurance:
- 1. there is nothing to invest -- it is just a matter of collecting
- and distributing
- 2. we get to specify what we want
- --
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