be careful with your figures

By: Murray for Oxley (Registered ) on 13-11-2007 09:57

While you may disagree with how to fund health, some of the money that goes into private health insurance actually pays to make sick people better. That $3.5bn is not simply a handout to the health insurance industry. 
 
Similarly, the idea of governments subsidising private companies is not new, nor is it foreign to the Greens, who advocate subsidising R&D into alternate energy sources amongst other things.  
 
I'm not saying that providing funding for those is a bad thing, but subsidies themselves are not bad and only a purely capitalist system (that doesn't exist anywhere) would have no government involvement in business at all - something neither me (nor do I suspect the Greens) support.

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