Quote Originally Posted by MMI View Post
Economic meltdown or no, it's still shameful that the world's richest nation has a third rate public heath care system.

Furthermore, there is nothing wrong with socialism. American fear of the concept is depriving its underprivileged citizens of a decent living while its wealthy capitalist czars gorge like parasites off them and their labours. Competition and free enterprise are mere shibboleths propounded by those who stand to benefit from them. ............................

State services - even inefficient ones - win over individual wealth, private insurance or meagre charity almost every time. Dystopian dream? I think not: give that honour to extreme capitalism.



---- WOW!!! I've just noticed I can type the word "socialism" withpout getting edited out> Thanks to the people who made that happen! ----
At first light you give a good argument. Here is where we differ some what. First the word socialism is a bad word. We do not have a third rate public health system. You overstate your position in favor of spouting the dialectic which allows you to use less real facts. Down with Karl Marx.

The fact is that we have a lot of socialism in America. Where do get off referring to "extreme capitalism." There are counties that do have extreme socialism and I choose not to live there. We have a measure of universal health care. Every county in every state has a health department where the poor can have health services. Other than that, it is the right of every capitalist to pursue the survival of the most fit. It is from the population of the most fit that all great advancements is health science comes. Water down the most fit with socialism and you'll see how fast we do fall to the bottom of the technology race in medicine, earth sciences, and social growth. Capitalism continues to be the bread and butter of the American way. Let's improve our health care but let's do it with capitalism rather than socialism.