Re:Obama’s crackdown views leaks as aiding enemies of U.S.
by graycat on Monday June 24, 2013 @01:42PM
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I believe you are going in the right
direction.
More generally, you are correct because you are trying actually to think about it. If we think about it carefully, we might actually get something both better and quite good. E.g., along the lines you said, if some Hollywood actress wants her nose again to look like it did when she was five years old, then she can pay a top Beverly Hills plastic surgeon. If some poor guy in a ghetto has a badly swollen foot and can't even pay taxi fare to the hospital, then he gets the basic work on his foot for free. Fine. That's like a 20 second, free hand, rough sketch of a Boeing 747 -- making it fly like a real 747 is a lot of hard work yet to do.
I wish we'd done that work. I can't believe we did.
It could even be much like those "basic income" schemes being floated around here; the government pays out up to a certain cap to cover basic preventative and "major life function" care. If people want fancier doctors that's fine, but they have to pony up the excess themselves.
I think the best examples of government interaction with the business sector have come when the government says this is what needs to happen without enforcing how it has to be done, and then letting entrepreneurial types figure out how to do it best. I see no reason why healthcare has to be fully nationalized, or why ObamaCare can't be the first step toward a system like that.