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Comment Re:US laws are not the best (Score 1, Offtopic) 582

You can't separate health care from the economy because the proposed changes are going to destroy the economy. Look at the Medicare system for an example of what government run health care will be like. Medicare is a gigantic Ponzi scheme that is scheduled to explode around 2018.

If you truly want to make health care more affordable, you have got to get rid insurance company lobbyists *and* trial lawyer lobbyists. We need comprehensive tort reform, and we need to promote price competition between health care providers. Consider this, Lasik eye surgery is not covered by most insurances, so most people have to pay for it themselves. Yet price competition has driven the cost down *drastically* in the past decade.

With enough competition, prices drop to the point where you don't need insurance for anything but catastrophic care. This whole concept of using insurance for routine care is part of the problem.

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