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> Politics, bureaucracy, mismanagement-- this policy has been a failure. So you are saying the governments attempts to do this have failed for historical reaso
by Guvante 13y ago
> Politics, bureaucracy, mismanagement-- this policy has been a failure.
So you are saying the governments attempts to do this have failed for historical reasons.
> Time to join the 21st century and push for universal healthcare.
And now you are saying that the government should have a bigger part of the industry, by absorbing it completely.
This logic is faulty, you cannot use a failure to recommend an entity takes a bigger part in something.
Additionally how well the website for finding healthcare works is unrelated to whether or not we should have universal healthcare. Heck the $90 million maintenance is not unheard of for a $400 million+ product, nor is it a lot in the scheme of a government program.
- jayd16 13y agoThe logic in this sense would be that universal healthcare removes layers of bureaucracy.
- Guvante 13y agoMy point was that you cannot point out a failure as a reason, nothing more. You can't say "because they failed at X they should do Y" and then later make up a reason why doing Y makes sense, doing so does not change the validity of your original argument.
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- winslow 13y agoHaha remove bureaucracy when universal healthcare would be a bigger project. I doubt it.
- beat 13y agoObservation shows that the current American health care system is by far the most bureaucratic in the world. Any computer programmer should know that if you can take a many-to-many relationship and reduce it to a one-to-many, you've simplified the system. Countries like Japan and Switzerland offer systems that rival the US system in every way and usually exceed it, for far less cost and bureaucracy.
- winslow 13y agoAbsolutely, I agree that taking a many-to-many relationship and reducing it to one-to-many would be simplifying it. However, I wouldn't say the US government acts or thinks like a computer programmer and we would see much more bureaucracy if the government were to take on a bigger majority. TSA for example is the one and only providing airport "security" and their bureaucracy and size is mind boggling.
- MrZongle2 13y agoClearly, the antidote for the poison is.... more poison!