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

To: Alighieri who wrote (13642)	2/28/2010 1:10:24 PM
From: skinowski	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

All these cost factors mentioned in your post are important, but all developed nations face them, and there is not all that much that can be done about them. I think that the factors I listed in my previous post are the ones which account for most of the excessive costs in our healthcare. Too many salaries going to people who do not contribute to patient care. Too much expensive government regulation, expensive complexity, and an expensive culture of defensive medicine. Hiring yet another huge army of government employees - hoping to control and micromanage things even tighter - will not make our healthcare cheaper or better. It will only make the nation more socialistic, and the political classes (of both parties) - more powerful.