Provocative economistic arguments! My own take is that neutrality on government funding for medical procedures is desirable, but I hadn’t considered the crowding out effects.

Charles,

I always wonder how much money every Progressive organization combined has and how much goes to the Democrats….

The bill isn’t just say taxing the super-rich. They have all these weird taxes on things like breast augmentation and existing quality insurance plans. My temporary insurance with the Teamsters through my dad’s employment with them is very comfortable. I do not want to see what a 40 percent tax on it does for my healthcare. I may be considered expendable costwise by the Teamsters, because I am the child of one of their lawyers ~ not an actual employee. My parents also lost their retirement in the stock market crash, so they don’t really need increased costs.

How happy I am to see Progressives revolting against the bill! Hope for them yet….

John says, If this passes, I’d question whether the health insurance industry would really count as “private” any more.

But by your understanding of the relationship between regulation and ownership, the insurance industry would never really count as private in the first place.

How happy I am to see Progressives revolting against the bill! Hope for them yet….

But that’s a tautology; it’s not helpful in identifying the difference. Obviously, Group X is part of the government if and only if it’s operated by members of the government; but when one side of that biconditional is in dispute, so is the other.

Me llaman Aster, aunque me llamo Jeanine. La historia mía es breve. En tela o en seda bordo, en casa y fuera. Soy tranquila y alegre, y me distraigo haciendo lirios y rosas.

Buenas noches, señor filósofo.

An agency is operated by members of the government; a business operates through rules from the government.

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