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Here's a thought about spending trillions on health care: take the money and do an Apollo 11 type effort to find the cures for cancer and heart disease and diabetes and baldness [okay, maybe not that].
Rather than spending money on more patient warehousing and medical rationing, go all out for finding the cures to illnesses that cost individuals and families and businesses and our society billions of dollars annually... and then give those cures to anyone and everyone. The payback will be far more significant than treating a lot of symptoms for extended periods with 20th century technology and alchemy.
Somehow we could place humans on the moon 40 years ago, but we still try to treat cancer with poison. The Obama administration just wants to do a lot more of the same. And if you do a lot more of what you always did, you'll get what you always got... just a lot more of it. The only real difference is that the focus will shift toward spending more on mediocre treatment and less on solving the underlying problems. After all, part of the incentive for private enterprise to find cures is the profit from selling them. If the government is going to take over the health care industry, what's the incentive? Just raise taxes.
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