>Government run health care works in other countries. Why are we supposed to be different?
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>Actually, government run health care does not work in the rest of the world. It is health care rationing. Andy knows - he lived with it most of his life. When he was in agony with a knee cap that had slipped, if he had not had private health insurance, he would have been put on a waiting list and would have had to spend 1 - 2 years in great pain waiting for his surgery because it was not life-threatening.
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>And I agree. Why should we be any different?

That is the epitome of anecdotal. All sympathy for what Andy went through but it doesn't prove a thing over the tens of millions.

I am in much too good a mood to take up arms here. If someone else wants to continue the battle against the unconvincable -- my advice, don't -- just google health care costs and results in developed countries. We are at the bottom of the list.

Over and out. I really do hate the endless back-and-forth arguments online, where all positions have long ago been set in amber and displayed for any interested parties.