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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: skinowski who wrote (13392)	2/11/2010 8:27:43 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I doubt that we can decrease costs without simplifying the system, including a decrease in regulations and controls, tort reform, etc. You see Skin, that's the problem. 'Tort reform' IS an increase in regulation; and Federal regulation at that. It's just regulation that plays well with your prejudices. But you are right... there really is not "free market" in the medical industry. Nor in the insurance industry. And we can't get there from here. To think otherwise is an ideological fantasy. So the real question is not do we increase or decrease regulation, it's how do we change regulation to make it more cost effective. National tort reform is one way, selling insurance across state borders is another. But you guys must realize that these are increases in Federal regulation.