It's like the way Dubya is undermining support for Social Security by mongering fear about its potential bankruptcy; the way Thatcher-Blair have undermined the British Health system via selective privatization; the way that the IMF and globalization encourage various countries welfare states to lose their coherence.
-- Jim Devine "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- K. Marx, paraphrasing Dante A.