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I agree with you. I wish more people would realize their quibbling over a treatment for a symptom when they're hashing out a regulated private insurance marketplace v. single-payer. Our existing insurance system allows a lot of perversions of the marketplace and contributes to the root cause, but having the government sign a blank check isn't the answer either. We need to return ordinary market dynamics to health care if we want something that's sustainable over the long term.