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does he say anything interesting? Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:31:07 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 By: Tweed https://thetalkingdog.com/2005/01/11/the_future_come/#comment-1046 Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:31:07 +0000 http://thetalkingdog.com/2005/01/11/the_future_come/#comment-1046 This is disgusting, but not surprising. Republicans are the quickest to point out flaws in government programs, no matter how successful, and claim that free markets are the answer, no matter the consequences. What is the most remarkable, however, is that despite all the examples of the social problems created by letting business run the world, so many people still view “the markets” as the be all and end all.
Business is business – shareholder value should be the primary concern of business. Which is why we need government to set up protections for consumers (e.g. anti-pollution laws; child labor laws; etc.). When we strip away those protections, we get New York, Chicago and London at the beginning of the 20th century.
The question we should ask outselves is to what extent government regulation of health care for profit businesses will be sufficient to adequately protect our citizens. Instead, Bush & Co. are asking themselves how much consumer protection regulation can we get rid of. Instead of using quality of care as the standard, Bush & Co., use the “how much can we get away with” standard – how many people can suffer how much before there is created massive national support for a better system?
Incidentally; watch congress in the coming year try to justify the dismantling of non-profit hospital and healthcare organizations (there are valid criticisms to be made). Real motive: get rid of the competition faced by for-profit hospital systems.

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