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I don't understand the lib logic on health care.



Neither do I. The problem isn't whether health care is provided by government or industry. The problem is health care is too expensive for too many to afford, and is only getting outrageously more expensive.

And, I can't imagine how involving government is going to lower the cost of health care. Government subsidies can be used to redistribute the wealth, but are just going to raise taxes and hurt our economy the same.

The core issue is you've got to lower the cost.

Here's what David Brooks, a conservative, but a New York Times moderate one, said about it on the Newshour:

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DAVID BROOKS:If you look at what the CBO has said, what the Mayo Clinic has said, what economists I've spoken to have said, what economists on the front page Washington Post story, David Broder column, we've all spoken to a lot of health care economists. And it's not unanimous, but most of them say this does not fundamentally alter the fee-for-service incentives that you need to reduce, to bend that curve, and they haven't done that yet.

JIM LEHRER: It doesn't really change the system itself that much?

DAVID BROOKS: Right, that's the essential critique.



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That's all I should have said instead of all that typing I did up in here.