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Ban, ban, ban, then force people to work for the government?

I'm not sure I want to live in the country you are suggesting we make.

What about drugs are legalized instead, and the medical sector is deregulated for example by removing residency requirements?

If a rating system can let anyone become the equivalent of a cab, we certainly can do the same with doctors educated abroad while also educating more at home.

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You guys are missing the point. I’m saying the general public is too unhealthy for this not to be extremely costly going forward, whether it’s for profit or non profit.

The only thing we solved is making sure you can live with the ailment.

We didn’t solve the cost of continuous care. Whoever is born today, will enter the demographic of questionable health in just 40 years. That means in our lifetime we’ll have almost 3 generations with garbage health inundating the healthcare system.

Try to flatten that curve.

If you look at this from a socioeconomic standpoint, the poor are more obese and exercise less than the better off. Being poor is hard, so the wealth gap of the US looks to be partial cause of this, but the whole cause and effect is hard to determine here.

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