Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 11:35:15 -0500
From: Sandi & Scott Spaeth <vespass-AT-swbell.net>
Subject: quick, I'm in an argument with a wrong-lib...


Hey all,

I'm in the middle of a reply to a wrong-lib who's part of our homeschooling 
group and I know I've read and forgetten a good refutation of the following:

>Health care is no different in its essentials from, say, the grocery 
>industry. Forget the argument that money shouldn't matter when life and 
>health is at stake. After all, we can't live without food, but somehow, 
>left to the market, grocery stores offer a wide array of food items at 
>prices within reach of almost all Americans. Lower income folks may shop 
>at less opulent stores where they have to bag their own groceries, etc, 
>while the more affluent stroll on hardwood floors in the deli, but 
>everybody gets food. The reason we don't see the same range of affordable 
>choices in health care has much more to do with government controls and a 
>high degree of central planning (Medicare & Medicaid, tax policy, 
>insurance regulation) than with pursuit of profits.


Can anybody help me out here?

thanks,
scott

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