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to millions of people and are causing a huge in-balance. Most get free or donated services somewhere along the line. As a class, they get health care too late in the life of the disease causing a longer recovery, more prescriptions, more loss of working time and it is more expensive to serve them in this sort of setting.

As a system, Universal Health Care, should be added to another concept - Single Payor health care. In other words, the government should step in with universal health care for everyone. The Clinton's had it right when they sought mandates that would force everyone into one form of health care coverage, or another! Having the entire population covered, prevents one class of patient from over-using the system. It allows the ill to go to doctors and receive medications when the disease is most treatable, and is active for the shortest period of time.

I know that many will see this as some sort of left wing liberalism that couldn't possibly work. However, the problem has been studied by the best minds available, and while agreement is not 100%, most do agree that Single Payor, Universal Health Care, would save this country many billions of dollars. It would stabilize our current wobbly health care system and most important it would bring health care to a public weary of a system that seems to not care how much the patient hurts, but how much the patient can pay!

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