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To: LindyBill who wrote (17407)11/23/2003 11:24:19 AM
From: KyrosL  Read Replies (1) of 793794
 
National health insurance is the obvious solution to the health care crisis. Every other developed country has it, and has, on the average, much better health care at lower cost than the US. I bet we will have it by the end of this decade.

The free market is simply not suited for health care, because health care has become a "right". In the US the free market manages to waste 30-40 cents of every health care dollar on bureaucracy and has resulted in much more bureaucracy than government-run programs in other countries -- the typical bureaucracy burden in Western European countries, all of which have government run health care systems, is 10 cents on the dollar.

The irony of it all is that ultimately the government here picks up the medical bills for all anyway -- after they are driven to bankruptcy, and after their conditions become acute and far more expensive to treat.
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