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We need reform, but this ain't it. I want single payer, everyone gets treatment, everyone pays the same percentage of their income (regardless of source) in taxes to pay the doctors. All of the things which are supposed to "keep costs down" are designed to make managers, insurance companies, and executives rich, not keep people healthy. And the "incentives" (like higher costs for some people -- read that fat people) are going to put the worst burden on poor people, old people, and depressed people. "Preventive care" which keeps narrowing the definition of normal doesn't do us a darn bit of good.

Oh, and the best way to keep costs down? Tort reform!