Why are people so keen on gov't run healthcare again?

What about a combined system, similar to Japan, but with our own twist?

I believe that some health-care is better than no health-care. And, socialized medicine doesn't mean private healthcare has to disappear. In fact, it'd probably be the most intelligent thing to have a private infrastructure, with a government-run HMO (The V.A. would be an example of this). Not that difficult, it's basically the samething I do when I'm in someplace without a military hospital.

We could pay for it by instituting a flat rate income tax (say 10%?) that cannot be adjusted or deducted. The rich don't pay that much in tax, because there are plenty of ways to classify "income" and not all of them are pay-roll, in fact, most of them aren't.

So this gloom and doom scenario for public healthcare seems completely bogus. HMOs are the real culprit, anyway, they've steadily driven up (and I mean exponentially ballooned) the cost of private healthcare since the Nixon era.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

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There is no defense against anti-ship missile systems,

::WRONG::

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