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Thenewire

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2. But it is true
Thu Jan 14, 2016, 11:06 AM
Jan 2016

The current health care in this country is incompatible with universal health care. The government would need to completely regulate and reconstruct every single aspect of the industry and probably even nationalize all the big insurance companies (going all the way to banning pharmaceuticals from advertising their products which I'm completely down for since this practice is already banned in most countries and drives prices up). I understand that this thought process ends up in the realm of fear mongering and personally I would be fine with this restructuring of the industry but it isn't an idea that is free of problems.

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