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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
[A] lot of the problem is very high wages. ...
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A lot of us like our high wages ...
Everyone in the USA doesn't have to work at Walmart or McDonalds
That nurse had to go to nursing school and and pay a lot for a 4 or 5 year degree. That Anaesthesiologist had to pay for medical school, work an internship, go to school again for his speciality degree in anaesthesiology, then work as a resident for several years to be board certified as an Doctor of Anaesthesiology. 15 years of advanced education. How many years of advanced education did you pay for Paul?
If advanced education to qualified students in the medical and other healthcare fields was free and taxpayer supported, at reasonable costs -- not to create the ''free'' education gravy-train -- that would reduce the cost of healthcare. Government administered Medicare works well but private-payer health insurance subsidizes its costs as well as the Medicaid health benefits for the impoverished.
You cannot solve a complex problem that costs $3 trillion a year with sound byte thinking.