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If I was a person of modest means, with children, would I want a government school system with a mandate (aka 'ideology') to make every reasonable effort to educate all children without regard to their ability to pay,
or would I want my only educational option to be a private sector for-profit system with the bottomline as its primary concern?
if we are discussing something as flexible and comparatively benign as education you'd have a point, but we are not.
Ok then, if I was a person of modest means would I want a government healthcare system with a mandate (aka 'ideology') to make every reasonable effort to provide healthcare to all without regard to their ability to pay,
or would I want my only healthcare option to be a private sector for-profit system with the bottomline as its primary concern?
Happy now?
You seem to have bought the line- in that care as it stands now at the average level which is pretty darn good would be able to be extended to everyone on the same basis- that is quality and access....
thats a pipe dream. there is no gov. or bus. model in the world that allows for such, UNLESS you are willing to pay MORE, aside from what you would pay via mandate, taxes whatever vehicle they employ to make you pay so its 'available' to everyone and that means you, as your own access and care degrades.
if thats what you want? hey thats your opinion, good for you, like I said to maddy, lets see how brave you are if you or yours was denied access or care because you would have had now or that you have contarcted for via a prvt co. , but don't get because someone else who could not afford it, got it....and you are left by ideological dictum on the side of the road with lesser care.