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Originally Posted by maat55
If the post office, SS, medicare and medicaid, department of education are not ebough proof that national healthcare would be a major disaster, I'm at a loss for how to explain that grass is green.
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Your final sentence is telling. Some people have accepted it as an article of faith that government is inefficient and all market-based solutions are inherently superior. I see little to no empiric evidence of this as a universal truth (although it's certainly true a lot of the time). But I guess that's just one of the basic differences between a conservative and a liberal that cannot be overcome.
I'm a pretty big fan of the post office, the army, the higher education system, NASA and the highway system, off the top of my head. And while the overall education system could be better, it's light-years ahead of what we'd have under a purely private system.