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To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (17368)	2/15/2004 1:32:24 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 306849

It would. But that may be the point of it all. A national system, able to negotiate prices, results in lower costs. Here are some statistics to make your eyes pop (they are from 2001; since then US costs have skyrocketed even more relative to other countries): oecd.org The interesting thing is that a lot of these European countries and Japan have a lot older populations than us. I dread the numbers when the boomers start getting older and our age distribution is more what theirs is now. Here are CIA statistics on infant mortality and life expectancy in different countries: cia.gov They are not making me proud.