@tom_forsyth I guess the point of contention here is that I don't see it as having been fixed. If they already agree 20% is good...
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Replying to @cmuratori
@tom_forsyth Why do you think that won't be steadily increased over the years? All _other_ government things seem to go that way...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@tom_forsyth It's just going to be like investment banking laws. Reset at crises, but getting worse at all other times.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@cmuratori You seem to be ignoring the bit where more people get healthcare?2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @tom_forsyth
@tom_forsyth And more people have to pay insurance companies. And really high prices for medicine. And now they _literally_ have to.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@cmuratori@tom_forsyth Private health insurance doesn't compute. Except for the guys collecting the ginormous profits of course!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @bionicbeagle
@bionicbeagle@tom_forsyth The thing people don't get, I think, is that health care is more like real estate or utilities than commodities.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @cmuratori
@bionicbeagle@tom_forsyth In the US, we have a long tradition of tight government control over real estate and utilities...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@bionicbeagle@tom_forsyth ... and nobody freaks out and goes "OMG SOCIALISM!!!!11!1111!". So it's just a perspective problem.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@bionicbeagle@tom_forsyth Obama and friends made the classic American blunder, though, and tried to change the law before the perspective.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@bionicbeagle @tom_forsyth And if you're not FDR, then you're probably just not going to get away with that in this country :P
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