The bureaucracy of government is a burden born by private industry as well, so
it's really not as black and white as that article snippet implies.
Not that any large corporation is a model of efficiency - most are the
opposite, but that's not limited to healthcare.
On Sep 24, 2010, at 9:40
http://huff.to/duZhZv
"Long before the passage of the law, the government was highly
involved in the US health care system. In 2008 public expenditure on
health care was $3,507 for every man, woman and child in the U.S., and
private expenditure was $4,031. The United States spends far more on
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