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Originally Posted by Eric

Just a comment in the form of a question: do you realise that the private health care lobby in Washington pumps more money into the Republican Party coffers than does the oil industry? And all this to maintain a system which is far more wasteful and inefficient than the NHS?

Well you'd hardly expect them to give campaign funds to the party of socialized medicine, would you?

The high costs, waste and inefficiencies are a direct result of government involvement. We haven't had a totally private system for a very long time now.