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Originally Posted by dalem
Sure. We can lower taxes, reign in litigation and roll back Federal programs. People will keep more of their own money to spend on health care, businesses will be able to hire more of them, and the states can keep more money within their borders to run their own health care.
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Federal programs are providing healthcare to a significant portion of the population who could not otherwise afford it. The other problem is that even if people are given more money from lowering taxes, they won't use it to purchase a sufficient quantity of healthcare.
What is happening though is that HMOs are realizing that people are more healthy if they get regular checkups, and are starting measures to ensure that people do so.
Other than reigning in litigation, what you said would result in a net loss of healthcare to people.