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Old 03-11-2013, 02:52 PM   #724
Senator Clay Davis
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The public option will still be there. Only those who can afford the private option will use it. Less people using the public option will decrease in the funding needed. Less doctors, less beds, less money paid out, less fraud.

This should allow less taxes assuming the government doesn't spend the savings elsewhere.

Health care is the biggest expense for any government, not looking at ways to cut it, is foolish.
If only it were this easy, the US would be #1 in the world in health care spending as a % of GDP. Instead they're dead last. Once you introduce the profit motive to health care, everyone becomes a customer instead of a patient. And there's nothing money making corporations love to do more than rob customers blind. Time Magazine had an excellent look line by line at an American hospital bill. No shocker that they are making 10,000%+ margins on many items.
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