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Skepticism, sure. Disdain, maybe. Fear, pointedly ridiculous. It's not so much that it's failing, as much as it's been resisted and sabotaged. It's a distraction to think in terms of markets. Not when you can plug a money hose, the size of the military budget, into the supply side of the equation. To name government subsidies as the ultimate and most fearsome form of corruption, and an abyss which has no known bottom, is to call the size of the U.S. military budget the purest form of corruption known to history. And indeed, if the U.S. military, backed by its nuclear deterrent is such a thing to be feared, then it is assuredly more fearful than the failure of any medical plan. Consider that we use nuclear powered aircraft carriers and cruise missiles designed to carry nuclear payloads, such to the effect, that in a conventional war, we smear an industrialized nation like Iraq, wiping maybe 100,000 people off the face of the earth, at a cost of 1,000 enlisted personnel. So take that degree of fear (or maybe just the portion of it, that happens to be backed by our global nuclear strike capacity), and point it directly at those who would let an accountant stand between your children and a doctor. What then? |