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- From: dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Is Microsoft the next Standard Oil?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.193602.12123@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 19:36:02 GMT
- References: <1992Dec30.073702.20328@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
- Organization: Camosun College, Victoria B.C, Canada
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- helz@ecn.purdue.edu (Randall A Helzerman) writes:
- : In article <1992Dec29.193954.27752@spang.Camosun.BC.CA>, dbarker@spang.Camosun.BC.CA (Deryk Barker) writes:
- :
- : |> : |> 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.
-
- No need to shout. If you examine those countries whose health care is
- the envy of the rest of the world, you will find not only that they do
- not espouse a free market in health care, but that the entire health
- care system is run by the government. Case closed.
-
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- Real: Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept., Camosun College, Victoria B.C.
- Email: (dbarker@spang.camosun.bc.ca)
- Phone: +1 604 370 4452
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