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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (28174)	4/28/2008 2:21:54 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

the health care resultants there (and per-capita expense) is vastly superior to what the US suffers under now. That's a rather questionable statement IMO, or to put it another way, many of the measures that are pushed are rather questionable. I'm sure they do better on the measure of how much they pay vs. how much we pay, but that doesn't mean if we adopt a system like theres that what we pay will be similar to what they pay. Pharmaceutical reforms, insurance reforms, patent law reforms, government reforms, legal reforms, tax reforms, technological & other safety reforms All things to try, before tossing out the system of private insurance and imposing some government run universal coverage. OTOH they are all very general. "X Reform", for any given X, can mean just about anything. Also not all the problems in the US (or elsewhere but we are focusing on what should be done in/for the US), are matters of law, or regulation, or private practices that can easily or simply be fixed by law or regulation. For example legal/tort reform. I'm all for such reforms, but they mainly amount to limits on punitive damages, and perhaps "pain and suffering damages". These can be useful, but what we really need is a change in our legal culture, even in states that have imposed these lower limits, we still have more lawsuits, and more expensive lawsuits, than in most countries, or in most other wealthy countries.