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On 25 Nov 2008 11:45:01 -0600, Dave wrote:

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:32:25 -0800, "Capt. JG"
said:

However, left to only the free market, healthcare
costs would go up. This has already happened, so it's not really in
dispute.

Nonsense. A market in which the guvmint throws massive amounts to sellers
via various subsidies is not a free market. In a free market without
massive
guvmint intervention, sellers of medical products and services would have
to
adjust their prices based on what buyers are willing to pay.


Unless, of course, they all get together and collude to jack prices
up, rather than compete against each other. That, of course, could
NEVER happen!


Happens all the time. That's why Unions are exempt from anti-trust laws.

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:43:40 -0700, "Charles Momsen"
said:

Happens all the time. That's why Unions are exempt from anti-trust laws.

You seem really fixated on this discovery of yours.

Labor unions are exempt from the antitrust laws because way back when
someone managed to sell the slogan "labor is not a commodity" to a
gullible
Congress and public, expecting, quite correctly, that no one would be
smart
enough to ask what that wonderful-sounding slogan means.

I'm not fixated, it's just a handy device to mention every now and then.

"Dave" wrote in message
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On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:25:12 -0700, "Charles Momsen"
said:

Labor unions are exempt from the antitrust laws because way back when
someone managed to sell the slogan "labor is not a commodity" to a
gullible
Congress and public, expecting, quite correctly, that no one would be
smart
enough to ask what that wonderful-sounding slogan means.

I'm not fixated, it's just a handy device to mention every now and then.

It seems to surprise no one but you.

Sorry, I won't mention it again.