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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (204108)	9/23/2006 12:29:11 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 281500

What is your point? What are the specific stats that apply to your arguments? What is 'liberal' and what is the 'nonliberal' solution? Healthcare costs in the US are completely out of control which isn't hard to understand when hospitals charge $2 for an aspirin (ok, maybe it was $1 or $3 but it's outrageous) or doctors give antibiotics for colds. So much of what chronically ails us is self-inflicted from truly lousy diets (stop subsidizing corn and start subsidizing green veggies!) and nonexistent regular exercise. IMO healthcare in general totally sucks. There are very good doctors and tons of mediocre ones and some truly dangerous ones. The public really can't tell the difference between them and the AMA protects them all. So it costs $100K to have open heart surgery in the US and it costs 1/10th that outside the US. That isn't from medical malpractice (2% of total costs), it's from what?