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"The costs to the health-care system are enormous, so the public interest here is ridiculously obvious."

This is the sole reason that any gov't run health care system MUST not be allowed to take hold.

First, your diet is at their mercy; next will be your hobbies: like to skydive? Sorry, the "costs to the health-care system are enormous"; Like to rock climb? Sorry, "the costs to the health-care system are enormous"; Want to have a child? Must do a pre-natal DNA screen to insure the child will be "normal". If the child has Downs or a genetic predisposition for say, Parkinsons, "the costs to the health-care system are enormous". Like being a couch spud? Sorry, gov't now mandates two hours a day at a gov't run health club because, after all, if you allowed to expand at the waist a bit, "the costs to the health-care system are enormous"

Control the health care industry, and you can control the population.

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The two main reasons why health care costs have gone through the roof in the last four decades is government intervention, and the out of control legal industry. Medicine, as a profession, has been villified due to the blurry lines between doctors, lawyers, insurance companies, and the government. One big amorphous blob of regulations, red tape, liabilities, and hoop jumping... when all you wanted was a broken bone set and a bottle of pills. And now politicians and lawyers are saying more government involvement and lawyers will solve the problem. Nice little Hegelian dialectic they’ve set up.