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wPuri sermonis amator |
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Politics and Pop Culture.
And occasionally informative, amusing, or bizzare non sequiturs.
Matt's in charge here, others can post.
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wTuesday, January 28, 2003 |
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E.J. Gets it:
No Miracle Cure for Medicare (washingtonpost.com) The push to "modernize" Medicare along free-market lines misses the whole reason why Medicare got created in the first place. The free market is very good at providing goods and services where a profit can be made, and inequalities among those goods and services are usually not morally troublesome. It doesn't bother me if I drive a Saturn and you drive a Porsche. Both of us can get to where we need to go.
But inequalities in basic health coverage are morally objectionable because they literally affect the right to life. So it does bother me that while my family might have decent prescription drug coverage, my elderly neighbor does not.
posted by
Matthew Carroll-Schmidt at 12:11 PM
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