re: #471 Existential_Donuts

I respectfully disagree with almost all of that, save the fact that money minded assholes are predictable. I would submit that money minded government assholes are also predictable. And accountable to me and you.

Yes - so when a new treatment comes available that is expensive, people will call their congressional representatives and demand that it be covered. Bam! The congress gives us all the option of that treatment.

Yup - that will lower costs.

It is a basic fact of economics that if a government gives unlimited resources for its people to consume that the people consume less of them.

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