Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mary Cluney who wrote (111746)	4/29/2005 11:08:55 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 791255

Ideology is probably not the main problem. Ideology was the main point of Krugman's article. If he's going to criticize the other guys for putting ideology before results, he should be careful about his own displays of ideological bias. Which is worse? Universal care run amok or private accounts where large number of people suffer. How about neither of the above? Unless we have an approach that will be better, we shouldn't change. The default is always the status quo. And the status quo has faults that are fixable. The paperwork part of it is ripe for productivity improvements. As for private health-care accounts, I think they're a bad idea, too, but not based on ideology. Setting up an private account system for SS to wean folks off the government transfer program is one thing. But we don't have a government transfer program for health care to wean people from so why create a new one. The program people are on is a private program so private people can them independent of government expansion. The only advantage of personal health-care accounts that I can see is that they are pre-tax money. You can make medical expenses fully deductible and get the same result without creating another government program.