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Re:The United States is not the nation of small businesses by ajg1977 on Friday August 14, 2009 @04:43PM (#763804)
I'm confused. You say you support reforming healthcare by reducing the role of government, but what exactly do you mean by this? Reducing medicare? medicaid (although that is more of a state run program)?

Perhaps you could enlighten me by specifying what exactly you'd like to reduce, and what you hope to achieve? (Note: statements such as "reduce government involvement" are soundbites, not answers).

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Re:The United States is not the nation of small businesses by viggity on Saturday August 15, 2009 @03:05PM (#765064)
What are you talking about? I gave 3 very specific examples in my post.

Quote: Things like policy portability, a greater ability to create risk pools, the ability to buy policies originating in a different state.

The Government restricts all of these things.

In addition, the government could drastically reduce the barriers to creating new drugs and treatments. Do these barriers save some lives: yes. But they end up killing many more because the FDA is always going to error on the side of caution, thereby denying the treatments that work to people who desperately need them.

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