[maine-iac7]

To me that is a reasonable approach

It is not the federal or state business to run a health insurance business.

And just when has government ever:

1: ran anything successfully.

2: Ran anything economically

3. Not encroached incrementally until they had total control - "toe in door" modus operandi"

Don't let these wolves in sheeps clothing in the door - their basket of goodies is poisoned

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Right, government intervention has ruined education and badly distorted the medical market place.

How about outlawing private medicine when wealthy Democrats send their kids to public skools?

[tips up]

I agree that the government “shouldn’t” run a health service (ditto education) but the fact of the matter is that they do and that is unlikely to change. Any more than our wishful thinking will abolish the IRS.

It is “reasonable” given the assumption that this government entitlement is here to stay, at least in the foreseeable future, like welfare, social security and other things that the government can’t and shouldn’t be in charge of.

My point is that if the gov’t is running health care, at least give people the option to opt out. Like the failed social security reform of a few years ago, which would have let people manage a portion of their retirement savings.