Rant ...semi on topic

On Dec 16, 4:18*pm, "Tom Littleton" wrote:

Finally, Wolfgang hit a key point that has yet to be settled
in a national discourse: is health care an Industry(thus a profit center or
group of them), or a Public Service(such as Fire, Postal and Police
services)?

If he did, it was an accident. I'm fairly certain that what he was
after was a clear distinction (or even a murky one) between postal
service and various others taken for granted by taxpayers in terms of
profitability. If memory serves, he said nothing about health
care.....and I strongly suspect that it was not on his mind while
engaged in formulating his question. That said, health care IS an
industry......as is postal service, fire and police protection, water
treatment (both "fresh" and "waste"), steel manufacturing, logging,
etc., etc., So?

I feel the latter to be true, but it seems that no one wants to
take that debate to the public.

Well, this looks public enough to me. And in a certain highly
restricted sense, health care IS a public service (such as Fire,
Postal and Police services). The debate (as we shall refer to it in
deference to a long history of public comedy) is about how restricted
that sense should be. But let's be real. There is no debate where it
matters. For that matter, there isn't much even where it doesn't
matter. Debate, futile and sophomoric as it naturally is, is at least
a recognisable form of communication with a long and admittedly
grossly overestimated value.....but a value nevertheless. There is no
real debate here.....nor even a reasonable facsimile. The fatuous
twittering one almost invariably encounters from both sides of the
question has a certain minimal amusement value (for those of us
blessed with low standards) but it won't amount to a small hill of
**** where such **** matters......as always.

So?

So, twitter on, by all means.

Why, I have no idea.

No, you truly don't.

So, what we'll seemingly end up with is a huge gift to the Insurance
industry

No, duh!

(Lieberman, Connecticut, Insurance....hmmm, anyone see a
connection?), no addressing of major cost factors, and we'll continue down
the road that will ultimately bankrupt the nation.

Not to worry. This nation went bankrupt about the same time as the
Soviet Union......some time in the 50s.

Sad, actually, but at
this juncture, I agreed with another Dean, who is trying to rally the Dems
to kill the damned bill and start over.

Sure. Why not? Won't make any difference.


giles
does ANYBODY in this group (or murrica......or anywhere else, for that
matter) read?!