Ed Huntress wrote:
"Curly Surmudgeon" wrote in message

Lets not get sidetracked into the health insurance debate for it masks the
underlying problem. The fundamental problem is that our health care
system has been hijacked by corporate powers making healthcare too
expensive.

Nonsense. The main thing that makes it so expensive is that medical
technology marches forward, not backward, and there's always more stuff to
apply to medical problems -- increasingly expensive stuff.

That would be a better argument if not for the fact that US healthcare
is the most expensive in the world. Americans pay 50% more then the
next most expensive industrial nation.

And it marches forward because people will pay for it, as an alternative to
living in misery or dying. There's always a ready market for new drugs and
new medical technology.

Meanwhile Americans have shorter lifespans and higher infant
mortality.

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Ray Fischer