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To: goldworldnet who wrote (463937)	1/7/2012 9:59:38 AM
From: skinowski	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793926

Our current healthcare system is a product of a few bureaucrats seating on a few committees, who determine what part of Medicare money will go to hospitals, and what part to outpatient medicine.... They will also decide how much the hospital will get paid for treating a heart attack, and how much for taking out a gallbladder, etc. They will also decide how much to pay your doc for an office visit, and how much for delivering a baby. There are hundreds, nay, thousands of opportunities to make the wrong decision, and guess what? They DO take those opportunities, and they DO create a mess. And a mess is expensive, especially since next they had to create a regulatory mess, to help control the mess already in existence. And it keeps getting messier. Private insurers follow Medicare's lead, and what we have is the current system. Costs are huge, hospitals closing, doctors going bankrupt. Patients unhappy. All very predictable results of socialism and price controls.