> Doug wrote:
> But if it comes at the expense of other sectors?
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> It probably depends on which sectors and on their growth potentials and
levels of profits. I am sure that the typewriter ribbon lobby pushed really
hard to stop the personal computer industry, but...you get the point. Who
would be hurt by the proposed HC legislation? US manufacturing? All of it?
And are those sectors who would gain from single payer important growth
sectors of the economy? Do they contain the same rates of profit as the HC
industry (like Pharma who enjoys huge ROP)? This is why the US economy has
been dominant for the last 40 years, because the political system is set up
to allow capital to flow to the most dynamic and most profitable sectors and
the state blunts public dissatisfaction and attempts at change. This round
of HC legislation was an attempt at the latter by actually claiming to be
doing something to help the situation for the people when in reality it was
simply aiding the continued growth of the sector. It really could never
have been more then that.
Brad