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Please let me know how you feel about these proposals.
Originally posted by joechip
Please let me know how you feel about these proposals.
I like the first proposal without reservations. It encourages a free market solution to corporate greed and monopolization, and facilitates the kind of transparency that would discourage these trends from developing further. I would strengthen it with some sort of list of importers of cheap foreign goods, and maybe even beef it up with healthy tariffs.
The second, however, is over-thinking it. We don't have to provide doctors with houses, merely a fair (generous even) salary and they can buy their own houses, like in the rest of the industrialized world. There are plenty of excellent examples of nationalized health care systems to use as proven, effective models. Don't let the shills fool you, it works very well in a host of western nations. Offering free subway sandwiches, while amusing, is neither necessary, nor a serious enough suggestion for this very important issue. We needn't give the anti-socialist lobby fuel for their derision.
My two cents.edit on 10-6-2011 by joechip because: spellingedit on 10-6-2011 by joechip because: editing myself a bit
reply to post by ThirdEyeofHorus
So on one side of your mouth you say paying doctor's salaries is enough so they can buy their own houses, but on the other you sport a desire for nationalized health care.
Originally posted by neo96
i pass on more government beaucracy thats the reason we are in this mess.
if you want to fix it get government the hell out of the way instead of slitting our wrists.
ask yourself why is it cheaper to have a product made 10 thousands miles away instead of having it made 1 mile from where you live.
globalization,education,government rules and regulations,taxes,unions and money is why we are where we are.
create a competitive environment and get out the way the market dictates price and compensation from the demand.