Health care

US healthcare system is the most expensive, yet it performs worse than in other 1st world countries. Discuss.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_compared#Cross-country_comparisons

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The bureucracy doesn't have to be huge. Especially compared to total size of dozens corporate bureaucracies that do the work now.

I live in a country with (mostly) government run healthcare system and the only problem I've ever noticed is that some people tend to abuse a system where almost everything is free. And that  can be solved by making the patients pay a small fee for every procedure and checkup (say $5).