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it's really unclear to me what you're on about, dk, except that you oppose in principle what you imagine state actions to be and use that opposition to chop up information so it's consistent with that.
for example, earlier you worried that the state, which you assume would be at the center of a single-payer system on the uk model--which is neither the only nor the best way to implement universal health care, but that's another question---would price certain procedures out of reach. how is that any different from what the hmo system does now?
and the fact is that the state would be in a position to act on price structures with far more effect than hmos have been able or willing to do.
and the motivation behind such actions would not be profit.
you might ask yourself what sense it makes to integrate medical care into a for-profit model in the first place.
you also seem to have an entirely fabricated view of both what state regulation is and its effects. it's bizarre to me that you raise the tennessee valley authority as an example of a problematic state intervention and do it only by considering it in the present and not historically. if you look at what the tva has done since it's new deal inception, your objections become laughable. but if you erase the past and look only at objects, they appear to make sense. i don't think the problem there is the tva or state action, but you're approach to thinking about both.
as for the "objection" that the state could not run a whorehouse--look around you. the private sector has shown itself to be even worse at it. why is that? think exclusive emphasis on shareholder returns. but if the private sector was so "rational" how did that idiotic viewpoint come to be dominant?
maybe what is the case is that your entire viewpoint is based on a priori assumptions and not at all on thinking about the world, except incidentally as an accumulation of objects.
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