Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna;
But we know quite well what [I

doesn't[/I] work. Our current healthcare system costs roughly twice as much as those of the other developed countries and still leaves 40-50 million people without healthcare insurance. That cost is growing at a rate that will require that money be spent on healthcare in the future that otherwise should be invested in growing our economy. The cost is high now, and will be impossible to afford in a decade. Having said all that, our system has produced health of the population that ranks around 25th among the developed countries, even though it costs twice as much! We know what doesn't work.