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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
what baffles me is that apparently the US government is too incompetent to handle heath care, but there's no problem letting them handle police, fire & emergency response, education, national defense, infrastructure, etc. you'd think the way some people paint the government that the states would be a lawless post apocalyptic hellhole. get the right people in charge and there's no reason a single payer system couldn't work down there
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Outside of some infrastructure and the military, most of those things are locally handled.
And don't think for a second that billions upon billions of dollars aren't wasted in those 'federal' run programs.
I agree with the idea of a universal health care system, just not one that the federal government looks after.