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[Red Harvest]

This basically means, more capitalism, more gaming. Too bad you guys have gone all socialist over there!!!

I don't see it that way, and it would be best to avoid broadly painting many separate nations with one brush. North American or European, we are living in countries with some form of elected/representative type govt. Each have advantages and disadvantages. Better to celebrate the differences rather than thinking they should be just like us.

I would gladly trade the US healthcare system for so called "socialized medicine." I've seen it from the side of the uninsured poor, and from the side of well insured. Either way it gave me and my family poor service and was not a good value for the money spent. I've had egregious medical mistakes kill relatives, and I've had to get personally involved in care of other family members to correct other life threatening mistakes. When I hear what a great healthcare system we have, I have to wonder what the standard is--I expect a heck of a lot better. I am appalled at the 50% overcharge that is standard practice in the industry. With a 14% annual inflation rate over the past 20 years or so, it won't be long until no employers offer coverage, and premiums for self insurance will be so high as to be unaffordable even for the healthy. Personally, I'm a bit tired of paying exorbitant costs for a system that gives me poor service on the rare instances I use it.

Let's not forget: unfettered capitalism results in the robber baron system we had around 1900, where a few Microsoft type entities ran each major industry as personal monopolies. People seem to forget that free market capitalism requires some regulation to keep it competitive, for it can devolve into monopoly. Capitalism in and of itself is rather ruthless and can be quite destructive, hence the formation of unions, labor laws, anti-trust law, environmental law, conservation law, accounting standards, food labeling & inspection, patents, etc. To give some perspective: those robber barons would utterly balk at the system we have today and would not think it free market at all.

[Jango Fett]

give it to china