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QUESTION NINE: In the United States, healthcare is so expensive that over 45 million people are without health insurance. It is a broken system, leaving out many people, especially children. Recently the executive branch vetoed a bill that would have provided health insurance to millions of middle and low-income children, indicating a lack of government concern for the well being of the population. Bush said it was too expensive, yet it's not too expensive to continue spending billions on an unpopular war in Iraq. Meanwhile, for the past 45 years, Canada has had a "government-funded, national healthcare system..." based on these five principles, according to www.medhunters.com.One, it is universally available to permanent residents; two, it is comprehensive; three, it is available regardless of income; four, it is "portable within and outside" Canada; and five, it's publicly administered. I rest my case.
QUESTION TEN: The economic theory of regulations (Stigler's theory) is basically using the power of government, politics, and special interests to improve the economic status of certain economic groups. This is a sidebar story to capitalism and democracy, but it often becomes a case of the rich getting richer and the poor left in the dust, because the poor have little economic or political influence. On the other hand, the public interest theory supposes that the government should step in and regulate markets so that the greater good can be experienced by the citizenry. In short, under the Bush Administration the power of government has been on the side of big corporations, oil companies, drug companies, and media conglomerates. The two candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, Clinton and Obama, both pledge to turn...
Time will tell if that will come to fruition with either of them.
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