“Once upon a time, socialized medicine worked VERY well in this country, so it is not possible to legitimately broadly castigate “government medicine” as the source of the problem.”
Horse manure/strawman argument. But typical of the "no-government-at-all" school of libertariainism.
If you were to go over all of my past posts, you will note that I have repeatedly stated, “BEGIN the process of privatization,”
So....Given that I advocate a **gradual** transition it is extremely unfair of you to accuse me of a “no-government at all” position. A gradualist approach would give ample opportunity to move forward with privatization, if it was show to be equal or better than the existing system, or to pull back and revert to the socialist=entitlement system now in existence.
In those states where vouchers, tax credits, charters are already in place no study has show that these private deliveries has done worse than government schooling. They are either equal to or *better** than the government alternative. In every study where children were admitted by lottery, those who won the lottery did better than those children who were not admitted.
Personally, I believe that it would be better for the nation's children to have complete separation of school and state...HOWEVER...given a gradual approach, if privatization were proven to be unworkable, or harmful to children, there would be more than enough opportunity to revert to the old socialist-entitlement system of schooling.