Quote Originally Posted by Ariovistus Maximus View Post
Yes, that makes sense. Mooching meds is perhaps not so lucrative as wellfare.
Mooching meds would require that you got a doctor who's very generous with his prescriptions and an actual selling market. If medical drugs are fairly cheap, why buy them black?


Quote Originally Posted by Ariovistus Maximus View Post
True enough, but keep in mind that we're talking about a permanent system.

Thus, the health care plan might work under one administration, but could be easily turned around by the next.
Considering how stiff the resistance is for this one, I would hardly call it easy to turn around.

Quote Originally Posted by Ariovistus Maximus View Post
And the problem is, not only might the ideal Socialised Medicine program be rather expensive, but who knows what kind of madness we'll actually get???

I don't think anyone (in a healthy state of mind) is under the illusion that our legislative body is composed of saints by any means.
Comparing what the US pays in health care costs (about 15% of the GDP) compared what the rest of the western world pays (about 10%), you have a pretty good shot of firing them all on grounds of incompetence if they fail to get it cheaper. They do have a considerble margin to play around with.