From: Tony Williams 

Phil Payne wrote:
>>That's the communist/socialist point of view though, "if all cannot be
>>equally successful, all must be equally unsuccessful." It's a
rip everyone
>>down to the lowest common denominator system -- a completely flawed point
>
> of
>
>>view as has been proven fruitless repeatedly... Yet one that the left
>>continues to embrace as they secretly pine for the resurrection of their
>>ideal model: the Soviet Union.
>
>
> Did you ever go to the Soviet Union?
>
> A friend of mine slipped on a stone staircase in Tashkent Airport.  She fell
> against a step and broke a tooth out of her jaw.  Blood everywhere.
>
> There were two white-coated first aiders then within a few minutes - the
> ambulance came within a quarter of an hour and she was on an operating table
> within the hour with a local anesthetic applied to the jaw and pretty
> serious surgery performed to fix the tooth.  From the look of the hospital
> and the people milling around pre and post treatment, we weren't in any way
> privileged - the peasants were getting the same treatment.
>
> I wonder how she'd have faired under your version of capitalism.

Without medical insurance she'd be paying about $1000 just to get an
ambulance called out to the scene.

--
Tony

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