OK, I am just going to put a short version of my thoughts on health care out there and we can take it from there. Initially, I haven't really seen much discussion of goals advanced by posters. An example would be that health care costs in the U.S. should be no more than 20% above the average of the next 15 most expensive health care systems in the world. Another goal would be universal coverage of citizens. So far, I haven’t read much about what people think a healthcare system should look like, much less drilling down into the various models other countries use. To me, a good start would be a system that costs a bit more than these other countries, works somewhere near as well for most citizens, and covers all citizens. I believe the U.S. system fails on all three counts. To keep discussion more organized, I will add how we can get there in another post.

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