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I wish we could just stop the inanity of this discussion and implement single payer or nationalized, whatever you call it, the current system is untenable. Granted there were a few good things that came out of the Health Care Reform Act, like the end of recision, and things of that nature. But the Act did nothing to really contain costs. A public option would have helped in that regard. I can't understand the opposition to nationalized health care either. Right now it's all about the insurance companies but look, they had a nice ride all those years and made hundreds of billions of dollars doing so, but the party would be over for them and their shareholders. Look at it from the perspective of other businesses. The small businesses who can now afford to pay more to their employees because they don't have the onerous burden of health care premiums to pay. More money into the economy - there's an interesting thought. Nationalized health care would be good for the country as a whole, but bad for the small coterie of insurance companies. I wouldn't shed a tear if tomorrow we had a national system and the insurance companies were just distant memories. Add that we are on the cusp of making dramatic extensions to human lifespan. I hear naysayers complain about overpopulation but if lifespans extended out to say 150 years the pressure to reproduce is reduced if say 100 or more of those are the fecund years.