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Originally Posted by Botnst
Speaking of faith-based opinions.
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Oh well, life is short, can't be astute on every detail of everything. Nonetheless, one can grasp many bits and pieces just by accident.
I believe math is the only pure science, correct me if I'm wrong, and that's because it exists only in the mind, in strictly theoretical form.
This business of clinging to 'free market' with an aggressive vengeance reminds me (I said this somewhere else recently, oh well) of some fanatical Stalinist who turns in his next door neighbor for selling a few onions for the equivalent of 50 cents.
"Ve Vill NOT have capitalism destroying the sanctity of the People's Socialist Republic!"
All the anxiety about socialized medicine overlooks, in my view, the probable fact that we are going to have de facto socialized medicine from hell for the foreseeable future, in the form of indigent people cramming emergency rooms, to get care that could have been had for pennies on the dollar with some sort of triage based community clinics.
It's hard to imagine people sitting still for po' folk dying miserable deaths in the street while others get expensive cosmetic surgery and multiple transplants in order to extract a few more years of life from an abused body. This is not India.
Free market is the way to go in about 90 to 95% of endeavors in our land but trying to cram every damn thing into some theory is just whack.
We now have a free market medical system with one of its prime aims being to avoid sick people. S'plain the wisdom of that one to me.