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I'm with you.

"Cost" and "spending" are conflated by these morons. One reason for rising spending is plastic surgery and about 10% of modern healthcare spending is for dealing with the side-effects of your ever increasing weight. Plastic surgery used to only be for the rich - it's not covered by...

Where do you see a free market in health care in the United States? Can you buy and keep insurance policies across state lines? Can you have the option to buy insurance that doesn't cover accupuncture and acne which is mandated in states like New York? Can you freely negotiate a fee...

I don't know that a list exists exactly. You'll find a lot of countries collect taxes on worldwide income officially, but they have various arrangements where you pay a either a nominal tax or none at all if you meet residency and work requirements - i.e. live abroad for most of the year...

This is a personal pet peeve of mine. We are beginning to have significant problems with drug resistant bacteria because of this anti-biotic over-prescription.

Technically, that's true. However, you need to ask yourself why the government has a right to keep tabs on where private individuals keep their money unless there is a reason for them to be suspicious of tax evasion in a particular case. Why are Americans so naive about this? Secondly, I...

If I were the only one, you could ignore me. But, everyone who immigrated from the Soviet Union is saying the same thing. You guys either have to fight the strengthening of the political class at your expense or you will becomes slaves.

This is OT, but you don't think it's possible that you are reading a biased view and you don't think you have a similarly biased view of doctors? Because there are people who will tell you that this country is filled to the gills with doctors who will perform unnecessary procedures just to rake...

It'll make it less rigid and more volatile during disruptions. It'll also make U.S. exchanges less competitive.

Options2001, You sound like every doctor in my family (including the WHO doctors) and I make the same point about the WHO rankings earlier in the post myself. I appreciate your point of view. However, as I an industry insider in Finance, I assure you that you are being rather unfair to...

My adopted country is the U.S. The problem is that the US is now on-track to having unstable governments, high % of poor, fiscal problems, high taxes or from many other problems. If the health bill passes, taxes for even people in the state of Florida will be higher than the top marginal tax...

You are correct.

You're right. America is moving closer to a totalitarian state.

Not really true. This merely means that your government has gained more ability to confiscate the product of your labour and your only option will be immigration. For the rich, immigration is not a problem since they can buy citizenship in most countries. For the rest of the schmucks...

Mvic, The system could be improved. I don't think that the doctor or I are arguing that improvements can't be made. This bill, however, does not do that. ALL it does is put healthcare completely in government control, reduces choice, and puts the burden of paying for it on a very small...

I agree with everything you're saying - except for the private plan option. That DOES exist in Europe but will NOT exist under Obama's proposed plan. The "healthcare exchange" eliminates private plans in all but name because the government will set the coverage, the terms and the price...

denying your citizens meaningful medical treatment is always cheaper.

"Europeans pay for their healthcare systems with pain and suffering. Since this cannot be measured, it cannot be turned into a target, and bureacrats learned that it is the best way to hide the true cost of socialised healthcare. If the accountant can't see it, then it doesn't exist." -Blog...

Nobody doesn't have healthcare in practice in the United States. It's illegal to deny treatment based on ability to pay. We just don't have that fake "access" where we make medical services a "right" and thereby formally acknowledge the superiority of the Marxist axiom so beloved at the UN...