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Everything being said sounds so good, however no one is addressing the Gorilla in the room.  As an RN who quit her job (after 20 years)  because of the business restrictions to productive health care.   I can be specific about the source of rising costs and poor care.  The hospitals are the Insurance Companies. Their goal is to "make a prophet" not to make people healthy. When you look at all the prophets that go to management, it explains why costs are so high.  These companies have NO business in health care at all. If the insurance companies were taken out of the equation there would be enough money to make health care work for everyone.

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