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Pete C.

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It gets corrupted from time to time, but in the end the market
place usually comes up with the right answer to this kind of question.

Yeah..... except healthcare

Our health care system works well, 86% of our ~350M population has
health insurance and of the remaining 14% a good number have it
available, but choose not to take it.

Our health care system is far from broken and while you can readily come
up with a few percent of the population with health care horror stories
in the US, Canada, UK, etc. and make emotional news stories out of them,
the fact is that the number is an extremely small percentage of the
population.

What US health care needs is refinement, not reform. Tighter controls on
insurance companies, more consumer protection, and a bit better method
for handling the bottom few percent of the population than the current
emergency room strategy. Doctors also need to rationalize the fact that
theirs is no longer a gold mine career path and they may need to live
with a smaller yacht and house.