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byretroworks ( 652802 ) writes:
This is very worrisome, glad to see it being discussed. According to the USA Bureau of Labor Statistics, health care employment accounts for (by far) most of the growth in jobs in the USA http://www.bls.gov/oco/cg/cgs035.htm [bls.gov]. What happens when a new sport surgeon opens an office in your county? What happens when a urologist opens an office in a town of 10,000 residents? The free market says that when people take employment providing a "service" which they themselves are empowered to prescribe, that pr
byAnonymous Cowar ( 1608865 ) writes:
If the government paid for car repairs, we'd have lots of mechanics and lots of repairs.
That's a really long way to go for a car analogy.
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by0123456 ( 636235 ) writes:
That's a really long way to go for a car analogy.
Not true; I'm sure we've all heard stories from family members about taking their car to a mechanic and being told it needs half a dozen repairs that it really didn't. Medicine is the same, expect most people have insurance so they don't even have to think about whether the extra 'repairs' are needed because they're not paying for it.
byTubeSteak ( 669689 ) writes:
That's a really long way to go for a car analogy.
It's also wrong.
By itself, the Federal Government has the single largest fleet of vehicles: 600,000+
When you add in vehicles owned at the State/County/Local Government level, the numbers start getting much bigger.
Think 50 States worth of public transportation, national guard, police, public works, and fleet vehicles for the bureacrats
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