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Private health cannot work if you have to pay shareholders dividends. The Govt can run a system more effectively because they can negotiate bigger deals (lower costs overall) and the Govt does not have to PAY share holders (in fact "shareholders" pay them by way of taxes).


Perhaps it remains to be proven, but I have to believe that if our hospitals and pharmaceutical companies were not allowed to advertise to the public, our insurance companies were allowed to operate competitively anywhere they choose, the pharmaceutical and insurance companies were required to trim marketing efforts to the basic necessities (which would eventually happen with open competition), limits were set on prescription drug coverage (no Viagra, etc), limitations were placed on malpractice suits and doctors were no longer allowed to go on junkets paid for by drug companies...... the cost of private medical care just might be more than competitive with anything any government could run.

Once you strip out all of the fluff costs from our present healthcare system, perhaps those costs would be miniscule in comparison to the fluff added by a government beauracracy.

If you want to see a prescription for bankruptcy, here is a link to the US House Democrats Health Care Plan Organizational Chart:

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