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Originally Posted by Robbie Damn, your case is not the average one out there. Hope you're doing okay... What I personally would have like to have seen would have been Obama and the then Dem controlled House & Senate growing a set and making it a real single pay system. But that was just a pipe dream.

Thanks, yes for now anyway.

A single payer system is probably 20 years off. The high cost of healthcare -- and it is just not the wage costs but the research costs and infrastructure costs.

The rapidly developing field of nano-medicine has much promise. http://phys.org/nanotech-news/bio-medicine/ governmental funding in this basic research may be what can save our economy -- for certain extend our survival 10's of years.

It is all a matter of where we decide to spend our treasure and time on. So far, this century is off to a rocky start ... Being able to buy a new shiny toy is nice but to live better and in health is a nobler goal, but can be a costly one.