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Originally Posted by SteveZ

....Oh, if it was only as simple as "red pill, blue pill."

Compassion is a wonderful thing. We exercise compassion with every charitable donation (labor or money). Yet, I don't know of anyone who took out a $100,000 personal loan and then donated all the money to charity.

The idea of "reforming" health care so that we all have health care services when we need it is a noble one. None of the proposals so far, including HR 3200, identify WHY costs are the way they are (e.g., problem identification), and then HOW the actions (the sections of the bill) will resolve the problem(s). Instead, what we have is a "it doesn't matter what works or what doesn't, change it all" approach which nationalizes an industry for the "public good." That's what happened to railroads, and AMTRAK resulted (and that works well, right?). There is NOTHING in HR 3200 which demonstrates economically, scientifically or logically that the provisions of HR 3200 will do anything other than reconfigure today's system into something else, and that the new system will be any better (or worse) than what's in place now. The only thing we know for sure is that it will be different.

It would be wonderful if there was one scintilla of evidence which showed this HR 3200 experiment will be anything different than another "Mission Accomplished" banner. No one in the Administration or Congress has provided any proof that ANY provision of HR 3200 works anywhere, even in a demonstration conducted by anyone, works! But, what the H#%%, let's just toss out everything and borrow another $Trillion or so, spend it, and see what we have once the money's spend, the contractors have been paid, and the cronies are hired.

If I'm seeing this wrong, please enlighten me. To steal an old line, "Where's the beef?"