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Alternet: Americans Pay More to Die Earlier -- by Brad Reed

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Americans Pay More to Die Earlier -- by Brad Reed

There are times when it's comforting to imagine that at some point in US history Satan hired Dr. Frankenstein to help him stitch together their health care system.You can picture the Dark Lord standing over the good doctor in his underground lab barking orders for creating the most insane and irrational health care system in the industrialized world. "It must cost more per person than any other health care system, and it must leave tens of millions uninsured!" Satan cackled. "It must rely on private markets that give most people no choice in who covers them! It must produce hundreds of thousands of bankruptcies every year! And, and, and! It must produce a system where some patients get excessive and wasteful care, while others have to shuttle off to emergency rooms just to receive primary care treatment!

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