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Comment Re: These locked cabinets never made much sense (Score 1) 226

Yes ... and it's often due to an austerity mentality. e.g. health insurance ... rather than have a baseline insurance program available for everyone for a fixed percent tax, and with private markets for additional insurance, we means-test everything. Means testing (to "save money") requires staffing, and you have different insurance programs (Medicare, Medicaid, VA, Private Medicare, etc) performing essentially duplicative functions for different segments of the population. Sometimes, uniformity and standardization are cheaper than creating a complex bureaucracy to save every penny.

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