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Which demonstrates the central flaw in central planning!! I have no doubt that a centrally run gov planned health system will use the tools at its disposal (namely force) to encourage healthy lifestyle choices. And presently the erroneous conventional wisdom is that saturated fat is evil. Logically, the millions of dollars presently being spent on public service ads to encourage people to eat wisely will be replaced by a smaller millions of dollars spent on legislation and regulation to coerce people to eat wisely. Meanwhile, the mistakenly preferred low-fat diet will lead to hundreds of thousands of less healthy people who had little choice in the matter rather than the lesser hundreds of thousands who blindly followed the diet offered by "experts".


Going back to two words in that paragraph above: "namely force" I would like to emphasize that a central government has a few tools by which to accomplish its goals but the fall-back tool will always be force in the name of law enforced by the gun held by the sherrif.


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