"Edward Dolan" wrote in message
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It is a never ending mystery to me why I poke about liberalism like a cat
with a mouse. I want it to work but it seems like it never does.

I want a single payer health care system just like England has. But that
is almost as far as it goes with me. I consider health care a right, not
something you have to pay for in order to get it. It falls into the same
category as K-12 education. It is NOT socialism any more than public
education is.

I think it is perfectly acceptable that the rich finance this, just as
property owners finance public education. After all, they would not be
rich if situated in a society like Afghanistan.

I sometimes wonder how far apart Tom Sherman and I are on the
fundamentals. I have spent my life thinking on these things and in the end
the welfare state makes the most sense to me provided society is rich
enough to make it possible. But still we NEED the capitalist goose to lay
the golden eggs. I wonder why Tom Sherman can't see it like I do?

Universal health care doesn't equal the welfare state and is certainly
compatible with capitalism. I don't think everybody has a "right" to health
care, I think it's a practical necessity and our responsibility to reform
the current system.