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To: sylvester80 who wrote (1116627)	2/11/2019 5:06:38 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573102

Health care is not a right, but I agree that a nation such as ours could do one hell of. a lot better and working towards maximizing the health coverage of most of our people at a reasonable cost. The solutions for that exist. There is no reason why the country that invents most of the break throughs in modern medicine can't figure out how to do this right. My biggest problem with liberals is that you guys don't seem to understand mathematics. The solutions you guys always choose will result in the bankruptcy of this country. However, there are solutions that would get us 90% of what you want without bankrupting this country. Freeing the markets in the health care industry is the solution, along with clearing away the state by state laws in favor of federal standards and laws, so that insurance companies don't have to spend tons of money to come up with packages that are unique to each state. Recognizing that what this country can afford from tax and spend perspective will look a lot more like a catastrophic insurance coverage plan, not a Platinum health coverage plan where 50% of the population pays nothing. Socialism is not the answer, because it is guaranteed to drive up prices and give us worse outcomes for patient care, while simultaneously bankrupting this country. If I had real power, though, I'd pledge to cut $200-300B from the military industrial complex towards remaking the health care industry into a model of free markets and maximum population coverage. We could compromise and get to where we all want to go, if we had great leaders on both sides of the aisle who understand that capitalism is the only way to get enough money to really make a dent in this problem. But we don't have good leaders in either party and we have one party that is Socialist. So no solution that involves the laws of mathematics and reality and results in a sustainable plan is possible.