I'm not even considering relative expense or research investment.
I'll take the obvious example of the US Social Security system, which even under the best circumstances would be under strain from declining birth rates, but is at this point almost entirely propped up by IOUs because politicians have re-allocated its funds to their own pet projects.
The issue I was concerned with was that, based on the prevailing pattern of government use of funds for social programs, Americans have little reason to believe that if a public health care program were established, that those public health care funds would actually get spent on public health care.
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Date: 2008-09-05 04:28 pm (UTC)I'll take the obvious example of the US Social Security system, which even under the best circumstances would be under strain from declining birth rates, but is at this point almost entirely propped up by IOUs because politicians have re-allocated its funds to their own pet projects.
The issue I was concerned with was that, based on the prevailing pattern of government use of funds for social programs, Americans have little reason to believe that if a public health care program were established, that those public health care funds would actually get spent on public health care.