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  •  maybe we should listen to Roy rather (4.00 / 3)

    than just "[educating] Roy on how his politics is hurting him".  maybe he can teach us something.

    nice diary, and recommended. don't get me wrong, i think of myself as a radical progressive, but that, to me, means being open to all possibilities and ideas. if Roy complains about the "meddling" government "telling us what we can and can't do", maybe he has a point (unless his an ideological right-winger).  

    maybe we should look for solutions that help the poor, or allow them to help themselves, while at the same time shielding them from "the cold, dead hand" of government (or private) bureaucracy.  creating, fostering, and encouraging community-based semi-public institutions or programs that can help local citizens by finding their own local solutions could go a long way towards winning over the likes of Roy, and might be the better solutions.

    i support national health-care for lack of better option, we talk about it as a magic bullet, and point to other countries (Canada, France, etc), but we forget the USA is much larger in population, and size than any of those countries.  maybe we're too big and should be experimenting more with regional solutions.

    i dunno... or maybe not.

    mydd straw poll vote: 1. other (gore) 2. unsure 3. dodd 4. edwards 5. obama

    by colorless green ideas on Wed Feb 23, 2005 at 02:07:28 PM PDT

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      i support national health-care for lack of better option, we talk about it as a magic bullet, and point to other countries (Canada, France, etc), but we forget the USA is much larger in population, and size than any of those countries.  maybe we're too big and should be experimenting more with regional solutions.

      I agree. I am a somewhat reluctant endorser of a single-payer system, but only because I've never seen a better option. I am quite convinced ,however, that trying to copycat a health care system from another nation is probably doomed to failure. It is vitally important to recognize that the United States has some challenges that other countries simply don't have to contend with.(our size, geographic distribtuion, diveristy, emphasis on individual freedom etc.)

      I think it would be more productive if, instead of  everyone stumping for their own favored "solution", we instead focused on what we would want out of a universial health care program, and encouraged people to craft a system based on those values.

      by HappyMichBlogger on Wed Feb 23, 2005 at 05:00:26 PM PDT

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