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Originally Posted by roachboy
so i take it then that you have no particular problem with the existing health care system and oppose current efforts to alter it?
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you would take it wrong. the current health care system doesn't work well at all. I do not oppose altering it, I oppose the current proposal to alter it.
The issue that needs to be fixed isn't forcing price and access controls, it's removing the influence of the health insurers. They are the ones fixing the prices, controlling the care given, and even contracting who doctors can and cannot see as patients. It's totally out of hand.
Mind you, this outlook is given to me by a doctor who has to deal with insurance companies.
If you let doctors be doctors, they can control their own costs and keep healthcare affordable, but most of all, accessible.
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Originally Posted by Derwood
I'm not sure why a shift to state/local government power wouldn't result in bloated/corrupt/ineffective state and local governments
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There is no guarantee that it wouldn't, but a smaller corrupt entity is easier to remove/remedy than a monstrous federal entity. You see it every state election cycle, except in totally jacked up places like Illinois or New Jersey.