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To: Jim Noble

In the 1950s health care costs were 5% of GDP.

Then government got involved.

Today they are almost 20%.


4 posted on 11/12/2025 5:05:23 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (I have no answers. Only questions.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Government has been involved since employee benefits were exempted from WW II wage and price controls, and since the Hill-Burton Act in 1948. Medicare in 1965 was always a fantasy - it’s taken this long to fail, and both parties are equally guilty.

It’s time to bury what we have - it is not surviveable.


6 posted on 11/12/2025 5:12:47 PM PST by Jim Noble (Let it turn to something else, Matty)
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