A public service I can support, but having it as the *only* option is not.
But that's the way most things are set up in the US. We have public schools, but you can send your children to private schools. ...
Wonderful message (
it got POTM'ed), but you forgot the largest public (insurance?) service of them all - The U.S. Department of Defense (and related things).
The public health insurance money figure being bandied around seems to be something like $900 billion over 10 years. But we are now (please correct me if I'm wrong) currently spending $500 billion A YEAR on defense and defense related programs. And I think much to all of that is before you add on the financial costs of the current wars.
Nick $100 billion a year off that bloated defense budget (which should be cut regardless) and you have the health program paid for.
Moose
Professor, geology, Whatsamatta U
Evolution - Changes in the environment, caused by the interactions of the components of the environment.
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