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To: KyrosL who wrote (17369)	2/17/2004 4:54:04 AM
From: Oblomov	Respond to of 306849

>>A national system, able to negotiate prices, results in lower costs. As long as you don't consider MUCH less innovation to be a "cost". Under national health care the government will just let the fatties die sooner, or will simply euthanize them. It will be done with great patriotic bluster and a sigh of relief from Washington... "Whew! One fewer area in which human charity applies! Hooray!" Why would such a society need new drugs? Expensive new therapies would just prolong lives and, thus, costs. More government regulation is NOT the answer.

To: KyrosL who wrote (17369)	2/17/2004 5:00:31 AM
From: Oblomov	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

>>A national system, able to negotiate prices, results in lower costs. As long as you don't consider MUCH less innovation to be a "cost". Under national health care the government will just let the fatties die sooner, or will simply euthanize them. It will be done with great patriotic bluster and a sigh of relief from Washington: "Whew! One fewer area in which human charity applies! Hooray!" Why would such a society need new drugs? Expensive new therapies would just prolong lives and, thus, costs. More government regulation is NOT the answer. Here are CIA statistics on infant mortality and life expectancy in different countries...They are not making me proud. Is this because of a lack of health care? Or are there other, more salient reasons?