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Obama's Healthcare Reform: 2 Winners, 2 Losers

I live overseas, and I have great health insurance. There is, however, ONE place in the world where I am not allowed to get non-emergency care... the U.S.A. Here's the real joke: the only time I need health insurance is when I leave the country, because government-subsidized health care here is both cheap and plentiful. It's a simple system of public and private care; because public care is ALWAYS available (with longer lines and less-pretty nurses), the costs of private care are constrained.

Last I heard, the US had six paper-pushers for every real healthcare provider. That's a big part of the expense, and it's plain stupid. Surely those people can be doing something more useful -- like growing vegetables or being massage therapists or management consultants or something.

But no, the US has to pay claimbusters to investigate claims and refuse a certain percentage of them, which means that the docs have to hire claimbuster-busters, and...

And then those who aren't ready to die try to leave the country and work in a place where it's not an issue.