How about instead of denying his post with nervous laughter and and a personal dig...put your money where your mouth is and actually debate?
Nervous laughter? Really?
Debate what? It isn't as if he can support his arguement...
He started this thread with some ambiguous article that, itself, wasn't supported --- and every statement he made is simply untrue.
Gov't run anything is a failure. Show me one gov't program in the US that really works...
You can't!
Social Security - you would be better saving yourself
US mail - been a loser for years.
Education - Private is SOOO much more effective
Medicare - ineffective
Obamacare - taking heat from the very people who supported it.
Bottom line is that if you put the US gov't in charge of something it will fail in comparrison to the private counterpart. The only incentive for politicians to offer any of this is to get elected. It isn't as if their livelyhood is tied to the success of any of these programs. They have no incentive to make sure the things they propose work... In a private setting, if their "program" fails, they fail to earn an income.
If he could even tie ANY of his bogus claims to socialism in medicine we may be able to have a discussion on that, but he can't --- because even if his claims were true, it wouldn't be a direct result of socialized healthcare.
So - first he would have to prove that is claims (living longer, infant mortality, etc.) were true by comparing apples to apples. Then, he would have to show that gov't run healthcare was directly responsible. Finally he would have to prove that OUR gov't with failed record after failed record would have the ability to outperform American, er... privatized, solutions even though the gov't compares poorly to private solutions in every endeavor they have taken up.