<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Feb 24, 2019, at 6:41 PM, John Clark <<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5">On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 8:13 PM Dan TheBookMan <<a href="mailto:danust2012@gmail.com">danust2012@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><i>
<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>Not as surprising when you consider that governments in the US spend more on healthcare. This raises demand and hence prices, which then feeds the call for more subsidies.</i></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">So</span> <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">if the reason health care is so expensive in the USA is too much socialism then I take it you would not object to switching over to a far cheaper less socialized system that has been proven to work better, for example like the one in Denmark or Canada.</span></font></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br><div>What I object to is coercion (both public and private) — as should be clear by now. That’s a radical libertarian view which both you and Spike seem immune to.</div><div><br></div><div>However, I was responding to the view that the US has an inefficient for lack of government involvement. Or it seemed like that was the implication here. (I’m also guessing that in the run up to the 02020 election, you’re shilling for the view the Democrat candidate seems like to support. So, again my guess, is this is less about the healthcare system than defeating you know who. Again, the radical position here would be: abolish the presidency along with the rest of the state — and all states included not just here but across the globe and not to argue over what color the drapes should be on the Titanic.;)</div><div><br></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><a href="http://author.to/DanUst">http://author.to/DanUst</a></span></p></div></div></div></body></html>