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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	OK, What's your plan?
	Date:	8/27/2009 10:14:38 PM

I think you and I agree that some form of true competition and getting the consumer closer to paying the actual cost of their health care decisions is the key to this problem. I think we also agreed that neither of us knew exactly how to do that.

I heard an interesting statistic today that frankly took me by surprise. 110 million (or 1/3rd) of Americans already rely on government (state and Federal) for health care coverage. Medicare, Medicade, SCHIP, Veterans, various state programs like TennCare, etc. Considering 1/3rd of the entire cost of health care is already paid by government and the continuing rise in health care costs it is readily apparent that governemnt is not the solution and in fact may significantly contribute to the problem.

One caveat, I did not ground truth this fact so it may be overstated. But if it is indeed true then it does not bode well for turning any more of the system over to the government. What a conundrum....