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>Middle of the Road in Healthcare Leads to Socialism  - Ron Paul - 
While i accept your point about diet and exercise contributing to the comparatively poor life expectancy of Americans when compared to Kiwis, it may not be quite so true if we consider Brits, who never met a vegetable they liked and are not well known for their active life styles. Be that as it may, your line of reasoning says nothing about the significantly higher costs of the American for profit system. So, even if we stipulate that Americans would live as long as their counterparts were it not for their diet and sedentary life styles, we would still be left with the fact that Americans pay about 50% more to do so. And so unless i am missing something, there seems no plausible way to spin this in favour of the American model.

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Beginning of the headline :The ever-expanding role of government in healthcare provides an excellent example of Ludwig Von Mises' warning that "The Middle of the Road Leads to Socialism." Beginning in the 1940s, government policies distorted the health care market, causing prices to rise and denying many Americans access to quality care. Congress reacted to the problems caused by their prior interventions with new interventions, such as the HMO Act, ERISA, EMTLA, and various federal entitlement programs. Each... Read More
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