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To: LindyBill who wrote (526238)	12/13/2012 11:01:08 PM
From: Maurice Winn	8 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793677

A cartel enforced by government, with regulations galore, FDA costs, and litigious lottery tort law, cannot be cheap < IMO, the exploding costs are due to the non-free enterprise nature of medicine. New technology is driving down costs on every thing else. > Deregulate the whole thing and make it like the car industry which makes really good Toyotas really cheaply and amazingly reliable, to the extent that a few liars or fools can push their foot on the accelerator instead of the brake and call it unintended acceleration and everyone goes hysterical against Toyota. Medical misadventure leading to death is a dime a dozen. It's so common that it's boring and does not make the news. One Toyota in a million might have some defect but that's enough for mass media mania. 2000 people a year died due to lack of Rituxan in treatment of lymphoma, due to delayed FDA and medical cartel adoption of the treatment, but you haven't heard of that: Message 24119968 In a competitive medical market, the Toyota of medicine would have been on the case even before I was. Instead of making things better, Obamacare is going to do just the opposite. Mqurice