I also find it amusing that those on the Democratic side complain about "neocon" bailouts of banks, but generally tend to support nationalization of the health care system. That is the *exact* same position, merely applied to different areas. That's why I feel the two are 95% identical.
I find that a very strange position.
On the one hand, bailing out a bank is essentially handing out money to a private business, whose business model failed (and failed because of unscrupulous, greedy practices). IMHO, they deserve to fail.
I'm not a "Big L" libertarian because I believe that we need to address systemic bias of opportunity for people.
On the other hand, this is exactly what nationalization of the health care system is trying to do -- addressing a systematic bias of opportunity for people.
Those two aims are, as far as I can see, nowhere close to deserving a "95% identical" sticker.
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