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It is a fact of life that idealogue governments aways achieve the opposite of what they are attempting. Twelve years ago Britain's Lbour government set out on the path Obama's administration is following now.
To look at the first paragraphs in the above article, the cost of healthcare is the main factor crippling western economies, it is not a question of "state versus private." Both systems have proved disastrously expensive because the companies that profit from healthcare have insidiously been planting the idea that if we only spend enough on health care and products we can all live forever.In fact the huge incrase in lifespan in the 20th century was due more to civil engineering that provided efficient sewage systems and supplies of pure water into the home, building technologies that have made possible for most people dry, warm , comfortable homes and an economic system that provided for the majority adequate nutrition all the year round.
People must be educated once again to accept death as a fact of life and simply hope (or pray if that is their thing) we live to a good age in reasonably good health. Once we understand that to die is not a failure nor is it immoral, we remove the gun the health services and drug companies are holding to our communal head.
If we cannot do that then the problem and potential cost of caring for the old in the next few decades is a far greater potential problem than climate change.
Comment Posted By Ed Butt On 13.02.2010 @ 12:14
