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Anyone with a brain has to realize our present for profit health care system does not work and costs way too much. We pay almost twice as much per person as the next country and yet rank something like 37th in the world. We also have millions of people without insurance. I think that we do not really have a health care system. We have providers of service and providers of health care insurance. Both of these providers should be trying to provide the most health care at the least cost. Instead they try to provide the least amount of health care at the highest cost. And why can they do this, because of the lack of competition in health care in this country. When you want to buy a car you go around to several care dealers and get the most car you can afford at the least cost. NO one does that with health care. We either go to the closest doctor who provides the care we need or to one chosen by our insurance company. What we have is one of the most bloated systems which provides some of the worst outcomes in the world. Health care providers want to fully utilize the expensive equipment they buy so they over utilize high cost tests where simpler low cost tests would do as well. Drug companies raise prices a thousand fold to create huge profit levels after we give them monopoly over the drugs they create, without any controls. Our entire system is out of control and our government is doing nothing to correct the problem. Instead the very people we send to congress and the White House take millions of dollars from these drug companies, insuring nothing will be done. Now we are looking at a Medicare for all system. I am not sure it is the answer as it will create a period of time where once again the health care system will be in a huge flux. I do know that something has to be done to fix the problems before the system simply folds under its own bloated weight. Jut so you know I was part of the system for 40 years.