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MartiniMan
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Archie needs some more education....sadly
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3/17/2011 10:07:04 PM
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Archie:
The point you made was there was no profit allowed in medicine and on that note you are completely and absolutely wrong, just like most of the posts you type up furiously in your angry mode. Both Japanese hospitals and Japanese doctors can make profits although because the government sets prices too low many of them do struggle to make a profit so in that regard you are half right but for all the wrong reasons (I'm sure they would love to make a profit if they could charge what was fair). Doctors likewise struggle but some can and do run profitable practices and groups. Look it up dude because my source was an NPR story from 2008. Even in the story NPR, not exactly a member of the vast right wing conspiracy, says and I quote, " It's a model of social insurance that is used in many wealthy countries. But it's definitely not "socialized medicine." Eighty percent of Japan's hospitals are privately owned — more than in the United States — and almost every doctor's office is a private business."
On the issue of whether or not it is socialized medicine let me educate you on the classic definition of socialism because you obviously did not learn that in the government school you attended although somehow the folks at NPR did which in itself proves that even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then......all of them except you.
Socialism: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods
I specifically refer you to the term "ownership and administration". As I documented, and it is 100% true and accurate, the Japanese government neither owns nor administers private hospitals and the doctors do not work for the government and therefore it is not socialized medicine. In fact, the government doesn't even own the insurance companies. They mandate that everyone has to buy insurance and that the insurance companies must be non-profit just like many insurance companies in the U.S. are non-profit.
Don't you ever grow tired of just being wrong? Liberals.......... its not that they are ignorant, its just that they believe so much that isn't so. Facts....those stubborn things....
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