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To: Alighieri who wrote (704544)	3/16/2013 2:26:19 PM
From: i-node	2 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573092

>> As long as everyone is getting good health care it's not an issue with social medicine...it's undeniable and it repeats over and over around the world. Our system is simply one of the dumbest in the industrialized world and THAT is what will cause us financial problems. If our per-capita costs were like they are in Canada we'd have no debt issue. Okay. If our system is the "dumbest in the world" -- why is it the United States is responsible for the vast majority of the world's medical innovation? And not just by a little. Even when some initial research is done in another country (as with mammography in Germany or CT in Great Britain) it ends up being converted to a commercially feasible solution in the US. It is a fact that Obamacare is starting to kill our innovation -- e.g., medical device manufacturers are looking for other countries that are more friendly to their work. Greater government involvement of Obamacare undoubtedly will stifle our innovation, during the last 50 years until 2009 the US has been the undisputed powerhouse of medical innovation. So, why is that, if we in fact have such a shitty health care system?