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Medicine and health care is not like other goods and services. I cannot afford a swimming pool so I do not buy one. It won't kill me to not have a swimming pool as much as I might want one. But if I had diabetes, and the medicine is unaffordable, then what? The whole reason ACA was formulated was because market forces made health care unaffordable. ACA was weakened by all the GOP amendments the Dems accepted in the name of compromise, and then the GOP refused to vote for it just like the border bill). Your comment is internally inconsistent given the nod to the implied preferable socialized system. There is no generalization the government involvement is necessarily problematic. It all depends on how the policy is designed.

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