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To: skinowski who wrote (194592)	1/28/2007 10:05:09 PM
From: aladin	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794015

There is certainly a lot to be said in favor of a one payer system. Most of it negative. You deride HMO's and approve of single payer Socialization. The reality of Canada and Britain is a system where the public system is one big HMO run by the same people who bring you the DMV. Who regulates single payer systems? Why do they all wind up rationing care? Medical care would be cheap if we stopped doing research and stopped extending lives - old drugs are cheap - new drugs are not. Are we willing to stop that? Right now Canada, Britain and the like use us as their R&D - and when its cheap enough they start covering drugs and/or procedures. Medical research stops with Government ownership. John