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Corbett_ Wrote: Jun 13, 2012 1:16 PM

Bull fertilizer. We already have laws against harming people. We already have tort laws. We have insurance companies who will do a better job of policing the ranks of the medical field than any government will do. After all, government licensing hasn't eliminated quackery. Of course it demands some level of individual responsibility. People will have to ask questions before they go see a doctor. They will have to look at the diploma on the wall and they will have to ask if the doctor has malpractice insurance. It is a small price to pay for a system that cuts medical costs in half and give patients more freedom.

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Improving Health Care

Any day now, the U.S. Supreme will rule on whether the Obamacare insurance mandate is constitutional. Seems like a no-brainer to me. How can forcing me to engage in commerce be constitutional?

But there's a deeper question: Why should government be involved in medicine at all?

Right before President Obama took office, the media got hysterical about health care. You heard the claims: America spends more than any country -- $6,000 per person -- yet we get less. Americans die younger than people in Japan and Western Europe. Millions of Americans lack health insurance and worry about paying for...

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