Re: Why socialized medicine is inevitable

From: Socialism is a Mental Disease (root_at_localhost.)
Date: 02/21/05 

Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 20:24:00 GMT

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:49:30 -0500, "robert j. kolker"
<nowhere@nowhere.net> wrote:
>
>sinister wrote:
>
>> Unless you want to continue buffing up your reputation as a rabid
>> anti-empiricist, please provide links to any evidence that the main
>> empirical claim in the article---that the VHA is now providing high-quality
>> health care---is wrong.
>High quality in comparison to what? Who made the determination. By what
>objective criteria? Why should I believe this?
>
>Even granting the point there is no assurance that the government will
>supply high quality care nationwide to everyone. Governments have a very
>bad record in quality and efficiency.
>
>Let me ask you a question. Would you like the entire food production and
>distribution system of the counry government run?
>

Of course he would! He's a socialist! 

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