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To: sylvester80 who wrote (1129093)	4/9/2019 3:54:47 PM
From: RetiredNow	Respond to of 1577191

Except, the best countries in the world, as you say, have found that Universal Health Care is not that great. I have a friend that just moved back to the US from the UK. He tore his ACL 10 years ago and still has not had it replaced. Here, anyone can get it done as part of their health insurance with minimum out of pocket costs. In the UK, they told him that since he isn't a professional soccer player, they wouldn't cover it under the country's Universal Health plan. So he'd be out of pocket for $25-30K over there, if he wanted to get it done. So he opted not to do it. You think socialism will solve these problems, but it doesn't. Government administered anything is more expensive with poorer consumer outcomes. It's a fact of life. You ask anyone who has ObamaCare and they will tell you their costs are higher than before and their coverage is worse. That crappy attempt didn't work. What we had before wasn't so great either, but the problem here is not that we need more socialism to make it work. It's that we have too many regulations and patchwork laws county by county and state by state, that make it impossible to keep the costs low. So only very large incumbents can afford to deliver the service. We need uniform Federal laws with a minimum of regulations to allow an explosion of innovation in the delivery of care. We need our tech entrepreneurs to be unleashed on this industry. They can truly democratize it. But they can't now, because there is too much Federal regulation and red tape. And you want to add more red tape? That will guarantee that our taxes will go up to Nordic levels, without any improvement in care for anyone, except the very poor.