<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:1.5">On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 9:58 PM <<a href="mailto:spike@rainier66.com">spike@rainier66.com</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_1732126300341223987WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><u></u><u></u></b></p></div></div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex" class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><b style="line-height:1.5"> </b><b style="line-height:1.5">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>…</b><span style="font-size:13.5pt">the USA has the most inefficient health care system in the world… </span><span class="gmail-m_1732126300341223987gmaildefault" style="line-height:1.5"><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">John K Clark</span></span></blockquote></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div class="gmail-m_1732126300341223987WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> <i></i></span><i>Are we still counting things as medical expenses which really aren’t medical expenses?  Consider that example I gave of very expensive ER beds filled with unconscious addicts. </i></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">Sorry that excuse doesn't hold water either, although I wish it did. Both the United Kingdom and France have a worse drug problem than the USA and yet their population live longer and they pay <b>MUCH</b> less for healthcare. I don't think the evidence could be any clearer, like it or not the facts are that sometimes socialism works and the USA could learn something from 30 countries all over the world that manage health care much better.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">It gives me no joy to say this because I like the theory that libertarianism is always better too, but when a theory does't fit the facts it must be abandoned regardless of emotional attachment.  </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4">John K Clark</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
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