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So Tom, you're in a hole here now. You've just said you'd rather have an insurance company making decision s when their profit margin is based on how many claims and procedures they can deny instead of a political entity that does not have profit as a motive but instead political power. Just what kind of political power is a leader going to have running a system that's causing constituents to not be served?

Maybe you're right. More likely the actual result would be some feeble attempt at gatekeeping at first, resulting in outrage from a citizenry trained for two generations to believe they have a right to the necessities of life from the state for free, followed by politicians (who typically don't know crap about markets, medicine, or anything else) granting everyone everything they want. Result: system collapses in economic wreckage.

This is already happening as I write this to the only major example of socialized medicine we have now, Medicare.

The rest of your post is just outraged gibbering.

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