We're Number One! Re: Chomsky News Network

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Yoshie Furuhashi" <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
>
>>The scandal of the US health care system is not just how poorly we provide
>>heatlh care, but how much we spend overall doing so, spending a far higher
>>percentage of our GNP for those results.  It's nice to appeal to other
>>Americans from the goodness of their heart for universal health coverage,
>>but the left should regain the confidence to argue for the efficiency as
>>well of socialist solutions.
>>
>>-- Nathan Newman
>
>-Perhaps, you didn't read till the end of the post, where I added this bit:
>
>Your right, I missed it, which is the point.  We usually bury that punchline
>instead of putting it front and center.  After a lot of work, most Americans
>know that millions of people don't have health insurance.  Very few know
>that the US spends more on health care than any other country despite that
>fact
>
>-- Nathan Newman

Hey, the entire post was just 5k -- not that hard to get to the punch line!

That said, the US health care system is a prime example of 
inefficiency of the market, if efficiency is to be measured by how 
best to provide goods and services to meet the needs of the people.
-- 
Yoshie

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