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To: liberallarry
Howcum you make so much sense with a name like LiberalLarry?

BTW - the way to get people to understand the limitations of health care is to educate them as to the way the marketplace works to provide goods and services, and to educate them as to how socialized medicine (and socialism in general) has worked out in other countries. Free markets do a better job of providing what was formerly unattainable to the masses. Just look at cars, which were once a rich mans toy. Computers were once owned by only the biggest businesses and governments.

What we need is to educate people as to the fact that there are basically two kinds of health care technologies out there. The first kind is the technologies that have become commonly accepted and widely used. The second kind are the rarely used and the experimental. People have to understand that the second kind are not going to be available to every Joe Sixpack out there, but if they allow the free market to do what it does best those cures may be available to their children someday. In the meantime they themselves can take advantage of better care than their parents had.

It's a mindset that is in favor of free enterprise and that is willing to embrace hard reality. It will be a tough sell to the general public, but it is better to at least try promoting this viewpoint than to just sit back and allow socialized medicine to take over.

20 posted on 05/20/2002 8:01:36 AM PDT by Billy_bob_bob
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To: Billy_bob_bob; liberallarry
I keep telling him to change his screen name to "classicalliberallarry."
22 posted on 05/20/2002 8:07:26 AM PDT by SteamshipTime
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To: Billy_bob_bob
Absolutely. I have a chance to put it to the test. I'm trying to sell my community on that right now - to promote cheaper ways of taking care of oneself, ways that are affordable to everyone. I'll let you know if I make any progress. Thank God I'm not alone. There are many, many people in the health care industry who are aware this must be done. Noone is sure how to do it, however.
55 posted on 05/20/2002 4:05:25 PM PDT by liberallarry
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