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To: i-node who wrote (718942)	6/1/2013 7:12:37 PM
From: Alighieri	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580566

Secondly, it has been shown time and again that private health insurance companies operate more efficiently that government payers. By a wide margin. And that is before you take into account the waste, fraud, and abuse differential. Nothing like that has been shown...sorry, this is unsubstantiated conservative spin. But those are MINOR points compared with the big one -- the fact that government involvement in health care is, quite obviously, the most important single driver of health care cost increases. Has been that way since 1965, when government first got involved. Same as above. Let's not do this again. We got nowhere last time. Al