>>>Getting back to my rant from the other rant - if this is a free market, what's stopping the states and their departments of health from creating their own insurances and having them compete on that market? If private is sooooo good, it'll win in the end, won't it?
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>>Each day, when state gets involved in business (in plainer words squeezes business out and takes its place), brings society closer to the final station (yes, in some quarters it's called pinko-commie etc.)
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>Care to have an example other than alcoholic beverage control?

There are too many historical examples.

>I've recently come across an interesting datum that the administrative overhead of Medicare is 2%, while the overhead of regular health insurance is over 23% or so. I know that once we had a minor surgical intervention on the skin, they gave us 25% discount on the spot, when they heard we had no insurance.

I wonder how this statistics collected and what means 'overhead' in this case. Anyway, there is rampant abuse going on in Medicaid system, and it's completely gov't business. Would you disagree?