Of course not. You can't give away trillions of dollars in "free" care and have it be affordable for the minority of people left to pay for it. Math is a bitch like that.

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Posted by HailHailtoMichigan!

Mission Viejo, CA

Member since Mar 2012

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Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:04 am to Taxing Authority

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patient expectations.

Doesn't get nearly enough attention, and is yet another reason we will never have euro style health systems.

Most european nations installed their systems either before or RIGHT AFTER ww2. the medical industry still wasn't very formalized nor sophisticated. What this meant was that european nations didn't find it difficult at all to control costs, because europeans weren't used to some high quality, fancy healthcare.

compare that to America today. Our people are used to sophistacted, fancy, but expensive care and testing. You try to take it away to control costs and there will be hell to pay.

This is called PATH DEPENDENCY. Your options today are determined by actions you took a long time ago.

It is EASIER to not give someone something they never had, than it is to take something away from someone.

the former clause describes europe, the latter describes america.

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Posted by BoarEd

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Member since Oct 2015

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Posted on 2/20/20 at 12:06 am to Taxing Authority

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You can't give away trillions

The idea would be to drive down the cost to near zero through the release of suppressed technologies.

We have within our grasp to live in near perfect health.

The medical system in this country, while great, is still flawed and I'm not going to believe otherwise.

You need look no further than Ruth Bader Ginsburg to see what can happen if people are motivated to keep someone in good health. An 80 year old woman (hell probably older) who routinely at this point "beats cancer."

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