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- From: helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman)
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.073702.20328@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
- References: <1992Dec29.005625.2589@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Dec29.193954.27752@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 07:37:02 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec29.193954.27752@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
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- |> : |> Ah the great god of the free market. Tell me, does the free market
- |> : |> help to provide medical care for the entire population of the US?
- |> :
- |> : This is getting off of the subject, but with the Federal Goverment paying
- |> : for over 60% of the health care, we don't have a free market in
- |> : medical care now.
- |>
- |> I don't think that's what I said. The fact is that your free market
- |> system fails to provide some 25% of your population with any medical
- |> care whatsoever.
-
- I'll repeat myself and please read it this time, WE DON'T HAVE A FREE
- MARKET IN HEALTH CARE. We have a "mixed system" in which the federal
- goverment pays for and therefore mandates 60% of the health care.
-
- The failure of our health-care system is NOT a failure of the free market system,
- simply because our health-care system is not a free market system.
-
- Our goverment interference in the free market is depriving people of health care
- --in fact it is a prime example of how the government cannot be trusted to do
- the right thing.
-
- If the government gets involved with software (as the current FTC vs. Microsoft
- thing is all about) you will soon see our software industry in the same
- dire straights as our medical system is in.
-