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Comment Re:Medical (Score 5, Insightful) 161

Medical software is a medical device and subject to regulation as such. I am in the business of writing that software, and while I as a developer can and would be happy to make things easy and awesome, risk management often determines that "easy" can also be "dangerous". Make the default route too easy and you risk a user accidentally skipping the correct route.

Comment Re:Gross receipts tax (Score 2) 321

I'm not sure the math on that will work out.

From the perspective of personal income, we need an average taxation rate of around 27% to balance the federal budget.

And what happens when you transfer money from one account to another? You "receive" the money, so does that mean you get taxed?

Comment Re:Really? (Score 4, Insightful) 767

Free market health care is NOT the most economically efficient.

A free market only functions when both parties have approximately equal negotiating power, are fully informed and not under threat.

By its nature, healthcare decisions are almost always made under threat of a cost to ones health or life, and since the alternative is to die, the victim...patient has no negotiating power.

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