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After factoring in all costs, please show me something the government does less expensively than the private sector. How many hundreds of thousands of government employees will need to be hired to administer this program? How many tens of Billions of dollars, per year will this program be able to misplace (not account for) because it's to big and important? We currently have this problem with the recent Pentagon audit. If you think government healthcare is going to be so great, review the current healthcare system the government completely controls. That would be the Veterans Administration healthcare program. The government is doing such a wonderful job with it that Veterans are now allowed to see private sector doctors when they can't be seen in a timely manner. I'm trying to imagine the cost of a new hospital built to federal specifications. The only thing more expensive than private sector healthcare is federal government healthcare with zero financial accountability.A public option would not necessarily cost most individuals more. First, it would help reign in the run-away cost of health care as services could be better negotiated. Second, while most Americans would see an increase in taxes, there would be a decrease in overall cost for lots of folks as they wouldn't find themselves paying $1600 a month for health insurance.
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