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Saturday, September 20, 2003
posted by gbarto at 1:17 AM:
Cicero has notes on the rising number of uninsured and the lack of health benefits provided at work.God bless corporate America. Just give it the opportunity and it will blow it every time. Ten years ago, they fought off government health care, arguing against all the damage it would do. And were right. In response they a) worked to cut red tape and improve market-based alternatives to show that there was a better way. b) rested on their laurels after their success and did nothing to secure their victory. c) instituted bizarre and byzantine health plans for their employees in a drive to grow profits at the expense of those who generated them in a way that made HillaryCare look not so unpalatable.
If you guessed c, you're probably also smart enough to know that the people who go into public administration and corporate management take the same accounting and economic theory classes in college and emerge with roughly the same disdain for the working man and woman and the same distrust of an open system like capitalism. Which is why instead of laying out the bucks to build and prove the viability of a truly free market health care system - particularly with a government racket already up and running - they'll spend their dough to try to get the next wave of legislation rigged in their favor.
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