Re: Why socialized medicine is inevitable

royls_at_telus.net
Date: 02/22/05 

Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 22:02:18 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?

Private hospitals.

>Who made the determination.

People who know something of the matter, and are willing to know more
(i.e., not you).

>By what objective criteria?

Patient health outcomes.

>Why should I believe this?

Because it's true.

Oh. Right. For you, that has the opposite implication.

>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.

No, they do not.

>Let me ask you a question. Would you like the entire food production and
>distribution system of the counry government run? Would you expect to be
>as well fed? Do you want the workers in the local food store to be
>government employees? If government is so great why not have it run
>everything?

Because not everything is suited, economically, to government
provision. Duh.

-- Roy L

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