Re: forming monopolies...
Timothy Sutter <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | alt.discordia |
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| Organization | absolute zero |
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>>> given free reign >>> the government will suddenly become very good at one thing; >>> Forming monopolies... >> for instance; >> Universal Medicare will be a health insurance monopoly >> that manages to charge hefty premiums, forces compliance, >> and not result in the best care for customers/patients. >> "Skillcraft Insurance" NOT; 'free healthcare" >> ultimately, collusion and price fixing... > "do you mean that the 18-34 year old demographic > will be forced to pay a large Medicare premium and > get very little care out of it seeing as they tend to be less ill?" > something like that. > i was just wondering; > "what's so good about Medicare for 'all'?" > what is so good about it? it just seems to me that, when y0u get what you want, you're not going to like what you got; partly because, you'll be getting a government run by Corporate MBAs [MBA = Master of Businesss] and NOT large corporations run by Art Historians. and nobody will be very happy with it because large corporations don't =really= want to run the government. as art historians aren't really the most able to run large corporations. like as; the people in government NOW will Not be the same people in government THEN. where Now and Then is pre and post government takeover of all things financial. the government will have to start hiring a lot of MBAs and letting go of a lot of art historians "tim, tim, the government is not now being run by a lot of art historians" it aint being run by MBAs either... anyway, you're not going to wipe out Corporate financial culture you're gunna force "them" to wear a silly hat they don't feel comfortable in. does ANYBODY see where this is going? don't bother asking HAL he's been reading a lot of art history lately NO, i'm not knocking the arts... it's what's on the canvas tat may or may not be 'art' and when the government _Institutes_ your taste in fine things,,, -then- you'll be happy. you'll notice i never once used the word...Bureaucrat until now that is.