Americans Want More Health Care Investment by Government

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I really wouldn't mind if something terrible happened to absolutely every person voting with the 70% majority.

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Uh, we do not have a free market in health care. It is loaded with government distortions. How stupid some people are is highly amusing: "government is more efficient than private enterprise."

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Third party payment (a government-induced phenomenon) is the main problem with our "private" health care.

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The tax code obviously encourages third-party payment, and you'd have to be an idiot (yes, I realize that is a label that pretty accurately describes you) to not realize the problems that causes. You don't spend someone else's money as carefully as you spend your own.

Everyone has become so used to employer-provided health care, but it's completely illogical. Why single out health care? Why not food? Food is more essential to life than health care. Why not exempt the cost of food from taxes if provided by the employer?

We didn't always have this problem, mind you. Expressed as a fraction of national income, health care expenditures went from 3 percent in 1919 to about 5 percent in 1946 to the nearly 20 percent we have now.