Canadians are outliving Americans with Cystic Fibrosis, in some cases, by as much as a decade

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The problem with american health care isn't the lack of care for everyone, it's cost. Costs are ridiculous here due to malpractice insurance and regulations (as well as the insurance companies themselves). Implementing universal healthcare likely wouldn't help unless those costs can go down. Though if you could get costs to go down, more people could afford (better) insurance. I wish our govt would stop battling over the universal issue and first figure out how to bring costs down. If its with universal coverage, I'm all for it, but as of now none of the proposals address it.