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To: rdkflorida2 who wrote (623)	2/5/2014 9:53:35 AM
From: Kirk ©	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26971

Yes, I agree. I think health care needs to be something like the Military or fire department for basic needs. Prevention of the fire spreading from my neighbor's house to mine is little different than keeping me healthy when he is sick... I also think we need to expand the tobacco tax to unhealthy food (or fake food) to fund it. It bothers me to see morbidly obese people waddle up to the counter at Walmart with baskets loaded with sugar drinks, cookies, chips and other snack foods and we know they will often end up in emergency rooms for open sores when diabetes hits later in life. We KNOW that sugar kills... I think health care is over priced today because the hospitals build themselves palaces to operate and they run up the bill because the government pays. The solution is going to be "vouchers" where employers over a certain size give money to employees to buy health insurance on national exchanges, the same exchanges that mom and pop businesses, like mine, can buy insurance and get a similarly fair rate. The price of dental care, implants for example is fairly reasonable since the US government doesn't cover implants and crowns.