re: Democrats criticize GOP for moving forward on repeal of Obamacare

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Easy solution is let the free market go with some reduced regulation and nation competition while offering a public option.

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While I don't disagree, the arms race that has been the insurance vs the provider for so many years may make a free market solution hard to implement.

The reason healthcare in this country is so expensive compared to countries with equal technology isn't because they offer free, government healthcare. It's because insurance companies would only pay what they think they should pay, and hospitals (and doctors) had to drum up those bills to get what was actually spent. That, coupled with medical malpractice lawsuits and rampant pharmaceutical costs, have led to a veritable quagmire that I do not envy anyone trying to "fix".

The countries that spend the next most to the US still spend 34% per person less than us. Best healthcare in the world or not, that's an absurd jump from #2 to #1.

We have a mentality in this country: If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

The biggest problem is no one can agree on the definition of "broke", at least in the context of healthcare.