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To: Alighieri who wrote (706046)	3/27/2013 2:27:46 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576601

Al, I guess I am not sure what else there is to say about cost to someone who is not moved by evidence...there is a lesson to be learned there for the open minded...universal insurance is significantly cheaper around the world... There are reasons why, and some of them would make the majority of Americans cry foul. For one, other countries don't have huge malpractice liabilities that we do here. Another is that these countries largely benefit from medical research that is funded in large part by profits from the American health care system. Now I realize that much of these profits go to companies that are able to take advantage of the unequal access to health care here in America. You may criticize that as failures of the free market, but the truth is that we don't have a true free market when it comes to health care. It's a fragmented system of entitlements, regulations, and privatized benefits with huge gaping holes. You can point to single-payer and say that's the promised land, but I'm not so optimistic considering that government has a huge hand in the health care mess we have today. Plus who doesn't want to have the powers of a dictator and fix things without having to deal with all of the inconvenient politics? Single-payer essentially gives the government unprecedented powers, at least from an American perspective. All this talk about you being a "progressive" who "cares more" is just you trying to avoid the argument. But perhaps you're frustrated by the fact that most of the vocal opponents of ObamaCare don't have any viable alternatives, except for the John Stossel libertarians who say that government should just get out of the health care business altogether. Tenchusatsu