Name:   CRD - Subject:   Cost of Medicare for all-$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ Date:   7/31/2018 11:32:05 AM

As someone who has been in the trenches of modern healthcare for close to three decades, let me respectfully  state that our healthcare system IS NOT BROKEN.  We have stellar academic institutions that continue to train the best and brightest of our younger generation in not only medicine, but also in the allied health sciences; so much so that foreign applicants continue to inundate our selection committees because the quality of training is so much superior and comprehensive to that of the rest of the world.  Advances in technology, such as robotics and newer materials follow these institutions, resulting in cutting edge treatment of modern day maladays that not long ago, were very inefficiently treated with mediocre results.  Perusal through various specialty journals will reveal a continued zest for research, that I will say, is also fueled by foreign innovation.  One cannot compare the periodic inefficiency of modern medicine with the inefficiency of fortune 500 conglomerates because the measures of success are so vastly different.  

The price associated with the delivery of this high quality product to consumers is certainly alarming.  Equally alarming is the involvement of politics into the discussion.  Why is it that a Certificate of Need is required to build a hospital?  I say bring on the competition.  Efficient healthcare entities will force down the price of healthcare if given the chance.  Competition in the insurance marketplace follows the same logic.  The nieve and uninformed will continue to believe those like Bernie, Hillary, Ocasio-Cortez, Pelosi, Schumer who advocate for a single magic bullet that will address healthcares inefficiencies, but know damn well that what I have said here is accurate.  

We can agree to disagree, but I know that many of you (including me) are enjoying the beauty of LM to this day due to this healthcare system that is "broken".