American health care is by no means even near socialism.
You can get many things dirt cheap in 3rd world countries. The
corporations do and then turn around and sell them to us at obscene profits!

"Mike1" > wrote in message
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> In article >,
> "ikke" > wrote:
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> >> America's health care the best in the world."
> >
> >The US health care may rank among the best.
> >Unfortunately only those who can afford it have acces to it.
>
>
> American health-care is almost thoroughly socialist now. (When I need my
> teeth worked on, I take a month-long round-trip vacation to the
> Philippines, and have them done there for a tenth the cost.)
>
>
> >The others have to make do with far less or with nothing at all.
> >
> >Privatisation usualy has the following effects to the customer:
> >- rising cost
> >- less service
> >- less quality
> >- less safety
> >- less reliability
>
>
> So communism "works better"?
>
>
> >Want examples?
> >Take a look at what happened to the infrastructure for electricity
> >distribution. (owned , but hardly cared for by the energy concerns)
> >Hightension lines have been neglected for decades, very little has to go
> >wrong in order to experience a major blackout - as happened only months
ago.
> >Take a look at the brittish railroad network. Since the privatisations,
> >investments in maintenance and security plummeted.
> >It is now considered the most unsafe railroad network in all of Europe.
>
>
> Nothing can truly be considered "privatized" if "privitization" means
> one is now subject to high tax rates whereas before one was subsidized.
>
> Taxation is simply regulation via other means.
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