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You know what I find rather sad, Joey? That you naively think government is the answer to your getting "burned" in life. Do you have a fall back position ready when that doesn't work out? I ask that because any rational person who has dealt with the "government" quickly comes to the conclusion that if you want it to take twice as long and cost three times as much...you let the government do it!
Somehow you haven't come to that conclusion yet...I wonder what you're going to do when it dawns on you that people in government care more about themselves than they do about the average citizen?
I don't know, that's never been my experience.
When I was in the Army, it was because I wanted to defend my country and look out for the troops in my charge when I was an NCO. Frankly, whenever I've dealt with government agencies, I've generally had good experiences.
If the Government takes "twice as long and costs three times as much", then why is Medicare so much more cost efficient than Private Insurance. Why does Medicare have a much higher user satisfaction rating than private insurance?
Every other industrialized democracy except ours has a Single Payer or Government sponsored universal health care.
The uniformly spend less, they uniformly have a higher life expectency an they uniformly have lower infant mortality rates.
What they don't have is Ed Hanaway getting Nine Figures to retire after he did shit like let Nataline Sarkisyan die by denying her a liver transplant her doctor's said she needed.