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4. Don't you care that we have the most inefficient health care system compared to everyone else?
Thu May 10, 2012, 11:28 AM
May 2012

We pay more for worse outcomes and government is a huge part of this as they are the largest payer.

Medical costs are growing significantly faster than the economy. Letting it do so in perpetuity is stupid as it eventually eats up all discretionary spending. Then what happens to food stamps and heating oil subsidies and federal unemployment?

In a way that would be a great strategy to destroy all the safety nets. Let Medicare drown it out first, then they just need to fix one outsized obviously bloated system.

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