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The United States already has a Socialist economy with government central planning and policies to prevent business failure. The problem is the socialism does not extend below the business class and is designed to protect investors and financiers, not the employees or the untermensch.
A socialized one payer (which I prefer) Uniform Health Care system would actually benefit everyone and cease to subsidize only the wealthy insurance, hospital and pharmaceutical industries. I think the existing system will prevail because unlimited money buys unlimited protection.
PS - Maggie Thatcher and her conservative government has cut the funding for Britain’s health care system for years in a back door attempt to destroy the concept that a government could do something for everybody. She was unsuccessful. Now that hard times are returning a Labor government is restoring the funding and improving the system. Too bad we do not have a Labor party in this country. We are stuck with the Wealth and Church party and the Wealthy corporations’ party. We need a really left wing party to provide most people with some real choices.
allydriver - my comments are not some "communist mumbo jumbo". They are the current situation as I have experienced and observed it. I am not a "true believer" in either the right or the left.
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