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	Name:	copperline -
	Subject:	You are suggesting
	Date:	4/2/2012 12:09:56 AM

What I'm suggesting is that we need a system where you can walk into any MD's office or hospital and get the treatment you need. I don't think that any large organization can be truly efficient, but I do think a uniform system of coverage is bound to be more efficient than a patchwork of insurance policies that only cover a portion of us. I just don't believe I want commercial companies controlling national healthcare, because you would never want a fox to guard the henhouse. And I'd have to disagree... the government hasn't been running the healthcare system and causing costs to rise.... cost increases are equally likely to be the product of insurance, pharmaceutical, and medical corporations that have narrow interests, not national ones. Costs are rising because of a whole lot of diverse & complex factors. But popular opinion that government should stay out of healthcare ignores the fact that some problems are so big that only the government has the resources, power and responsibility to address them.

The Post Office may be inefficient, ....as big as it is, it would just have to be. But imagine how it would have limited the development of the country if we hadn't developed a national postal service in the first place. Didn't we need the government to set up a uniform system for carrying the mail because it was in our national interests?