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A common argument, and wrong.
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You don't start shopping for the best deal on tires when you're sitting on the freeway with a flat, and you don't make your insurance choices when you're sitting in an emergency room. Competition and choice are normally dealt with before the fact, not after.

I don't compare fire insurance when my house is burning, or car insurance when my car has been wrecked. I have the choice of many companies, and they are fighting for my business and offering me deals. The place we are now with health insurance -- employer provided -- was the result of a government screwup many years ago and it's long past time to repair it.

You might think "compassion" is creating a health care system that's the equivalent of the Volga in automobiles, or having our own version of the British NICE. I don't.

By the way, "40 million citizens" is not accurate, but we've been over that before, too.

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