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Buried deep in the Saturday business section of the Rocky, Rep. Morgan Carroll offers some cogent insights on health care in America.

Health care hijacked by insurers, hospital interests, lawmaker says

"For the last 10 years, businesses, consumers, everyone have been saying, 'Health insurance costs are outrageous - they're killing us. It is a financial crisis.' And for 10 years, largely out of desperation, we've listened to insurers. Their solution has been to further deregulate the industry and increase competition. So we've removed consumer protection and oversight, we've put in a zillion different barriers in the name of tort reform, and we've capped damages in medical malpractice cases. The result? We've sold everybody's rights down the river, and our health care costs have gone through the roof."


Read it all -- mandatory.

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Medical Care in America
By John Beckman Aug 24th 2006 at 11:00 am EDT
Why can Cuba, as well as most of the modern world, afford to have National Health Care and we cannot?
Maybe one should also ask why Cuba has 100% literacy and we do not.
Or, why is college tuition free in Cuba and skyrocketing in America?
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