<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><DIV>Yes, the choice isn't between everyone gets what she or he wants or only a select few get what they want.</DIV>
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<DIV>Add to this, we don't have a free market in healthcare. We have basically a highly regulated and subsidized market in it and this has been the case for a long, long time. In the US, contrary to the views of many uninformed people, the actual government involvement in healthcare has been quite high for decades, even surpassing the so called "socialist" nations of Europe in terms of percentage of government money devoted to healthcare versus private spending on the same. (This goes along with, too, the mislabeling of many European nations as socialist, including those in Scandinavia; those particular nations actually tend to have less government intervention in the economy than other European nations.)</DIV>
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<DIV>And the issue of force comes in as always. If someone is going to get something that she or he wouldn't get via voluntary exchange, this means it's going to have to be taken or paid for by someone else. Why should this be allowed or advocated? Why is it seen as ethical to use force?</DIV>
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<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
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<DIV>Dan</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif"><FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Dave Sill <sparge@gmail.com><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Tue, July 20, 2010 9:50:02 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [ExI] Was medical marijuana. On Insurance<BR></FONT><BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote>2010/7/20 Colin D <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:colin.dodson@gmail.com" target=_blank rel=nofollow ymailto="mailto:colin.dodson@gmail.com">colin.dodson@gmail.com</A>></SPAN><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=gmail_quote style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">May I be so egalitarian as to suggest that perhaps the so-called 'free market' isn't the best solution for all problems, and that just maybe everyone who wants it deserves suitable and appropriate health-care, regardless of their material wealth?</BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR>
<DIV>Suggest away. And while you're at it, suggest a way to pay for all that top-notch healthcare.</DIV>
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<DIV>-Dave</DIV>
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