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We're gonna put universal health care on our next Florida ballot. 
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I think it highly doubtful that we would get a better or cheaper health care system by overlaying our current system with a universal set up.
To illustrate, a doctor in the US will get paid a certain amount in our system. This pay scale is set by convention, and is considerably higher than any other place in the world. This would be true, even if we had universal health care or universal health insurance.
Furthermore, who's to say that the convention on doctor's pay scale in other countries is better than what we have? We have decided that since they have 4 years of college, 4 years of medical school, 3 years of internship, and up to 4 years of fellowship, that they get paid bucketloads of money. This seems only fair. Society gets its money worth.Last edited by DanS; January 26, 2003, 18:01.I came upon a barroom full of bad Salon pictures in which men with hats on the backs of their heads were wolfing food from a counter. It was the institution of the "free lunch" I had struck. You paid for a drink and got as much as you wanted to eat. For something less than a rupee a day a man can feed himself sumptuously in San Francisco, even though he be a bankrupt. Remember this if ever you are stranded in these parts. ~ Rudyard Kipling, 1891Comment
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