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"Whether or not you count illegal immigrants in those numbers or not, the number of uninsured in the United States is far too high and is a travesty. It is nothing short of a massive market failure to provide a service to the general populace. It’s a damning blow to privatization of for-profit healthcare."
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The concept of anyone guestposting on gfmorris.com is weird to me, but if I gave in to the temptation, Bry would be my guy.
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Yes, I have like four versions of this show now. You think I'm crazy, right? No, I'm just going to matrix them together … FOR GREAT JUSTICE!
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"What Will's position reflects instead is ideology: who cares that the federal government could build a better mousetrap? They're the government and that's bad. His argument is really no more sophisticated than that. If a libertarian conservative wants to make this argument, more power to them, but they absolutely should not be turning around and suggesting that a public option would raise health care costs. They're saying, rather, that they're morally opposed to the cost savings that would ensue.
"If you've been reading me for a while, you'll know that, as compared with most self-described liberals, I'm unusually sympathetic toward the notion of the profit motive and private industry; I've defended Wall Street bankers and the AIG bonuses at various points during the financial crisis, among other things. It's my belief that private industry is usually able to deliver more efficient outcomes to the consumer than the government could.
"But usually isn't always."
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Jeff and Amy, I'm grabbing this for you.
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