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To: cirrus who wrote (105)	9/6/2006 1:08:35 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 10087

Every study I've seen indicates that American's pay far more for health care than any other people in the world. And we don't have the best health care. That's inefficient. In some ways we do have the best health care. Ranking the top health care systems isn't simple. There are quite a lot of criteria and a huge element of subjective ranking involved. We pay more for health care for a number of reasons. One is that we effectively subsidize much of the world's prescription drug purchases. You could act to eliminate that effective subsidy but there would be costs/problems with that as well. Another reason is that we do provide so much advanced/effective/expensive health care, which in countries with single payer government systems might not be provided, or might only be provided after a long weight. Another reason is simply that we are wealthier than most countries, even most developed countries. Being wealthier increases the dollar demand for health care.