Kasz216 said:
Healthcare... actually. Medicaid & Medicare accounts for 45% of healthcare costs in the US. In 2002 it was 6.6% of GDP vs Private healthcares 8.1% of GDP. Despite the fact that it covered even less people then it does today. (Something like 16% of the insured population.) http://www.iedm.org/uploaded/pdf/juin05_en.pdf
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That was the example you already gave...and Obama is already taking steps to address this problem because it is a problem that needs to be fixed. I agree that it should be fixed.
But at the same time people yell and scream that the government is "rationing" healthcare. I guess its OK if insurance companies do it but not if the government does. I never really did understand that.
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