Originally posted by Womble
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You like to say that someone should not have to pay 'market prices' for their health care well let me tell you a story. A story that I love to tell you over and over again but I have forgotten most of it so bare with me. Some Doctor, in NY, decided that, well you know I am going to charge all my patients who come to see me one low monthly fee, I do not need that much money, I do not need to over charge my people, and I will probably get more patients and customers thanks to volume. Well guess what? The Government, for whatever reason, did not like it that much. they said, you can't do that, you are an insurance company now, so you have to charge your people certain amount of dollars for their monthly fee. Which the new fee was significantly greater then the old fee.
And in banking, in the seventies and the nineties two laws came out. Basically allowing to, and forcing the banks, to do buisness with certain people who could not back up their loans because they were minorities. This was in an effort an effort to give homes away to people and groups who do not have them. And then some of the banks probably in their greed figured, hey we can make a lot of money off of this! And so they did.
And then when they were beginning to fail they went crying to the Government, many of them, and said, give us money so we can survive! Oh they are too big to fail we need them for our economy, I do not want to but we have to give the banks the money. But lets have new rules. Rules that I have heard achieve many of the same problems as the old set of rules regarding minorities But this is not Capitalism, this is not the free market, at the very least this is Corpratism, which is just as bad as Soclialism...where they are close cousins. Worse because it seems that Corpratism is actually damn efficient.
When regulations and growing the government slightly to deal with a certain problem and protect people is not Socialism. Socialism and Corpratism are much deeper and wider and more menacing then simple regulations, when infact the lack of regulations can be used to Socialistic objectives. The ends justify the means?
And there are several reasons that Israel has a longer life span then us.
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