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]]> By: John Cross http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/2012/10/09/brooks-nocera-and-bruni-20/#comment-22373 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:21:00 +0000 http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/?p=4029#comment-22373 The healthcare cost argument is way off the rails. Try this thought experiment. Suppose it was 1945, right after World War II, not today, but with the same lines drawn as today. If the arguments were in the same spirit as today, the Republicans would be arguing that we need to cut funding for iron lungs and TB sanitariums, and let people take responsibility for their own polio treatments and TB rest-cures. Meanwhile the Dems would be wanting to raise money for vaccine and antibiotic research and keep funding the iron lungs and sanitoriums until something better is discovered. Well guess what, who would have been right?

Ask yourself, is better health care always more expensive? No, not by a long shot. A polio vaccination costs a few cents, a life in an iron lung millions. Take a trip through history and it’s clear that we’re in a temporary situation where costs have grown faster than the discoveries that reduce costs. If we want to reduce costs, we need more preventive care research, not cuts to health care.

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