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To: TimF who wrote (135634)	4/3/2010 12:30:29 AM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543106

>>If you where asserting that health care itself costs a lot more in NY than CA, than you might have a relevant point, but "higher costs in NY and CA", don't explain why insurance costs more in NY than CA.<< Excuse me. I thought you were talking about the fact that health insurance costs more in NY and CA than it does in the rest of the country, which is true. But my basic point is still valid, because it's also true that healthcare itself costs more in NY than it does in CA. To assert that the cost of healthcare has no relationship to the cost of health insurance, as you appear to be doing, and that the price differences are solely (or even mostly) due to government regulation makes no sense whatsoever. Of course, some kinds of government regulation would tend to drive the cost of health insurance up. But obviously, the costs of the care itself have a more direct effect.