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I am the Corvallis ER Doctor who spoke at the end of the discussion about the elephant in the room being the insurance companies that neither candidate is willing to take on. Nobody even tangentially addressed my comments. On the other hand, they did talk about how EVERYBODY is avoiding the other difficult subjects such as ratcheting down our devotion to very expensive/marginally beneficial technologies and our abysmal approach to end of life issues. The "R" word, rationing is only spoken of in the negative. We currently ration by health insurance status. Wouldn't it make more sense to ration our precious public resource on the basis of how we can get the greatest health and the least suffering for our health care dollars? For a video that addresses three questions about our health care system: 1) Why does it cost so much? 2) What does is say about us? 3) What can we do about it? ... I direct you to www.ourailinghealthcare.com

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