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The problem with healthcare in America is that people live too long. Twenty years from now Medicare will be providing health care coverage for 78 million Americans ¹.

Contrary to what most leftists believe, the US spends more on healthcare per person than other developed countries ², more than $6,500 per person. Interestingly, in 2004, almost half of all healthcare spending was used to treat just 5 percent of the population. Clearly, we need to do something about that 5% which most likely is the very old.

So I am now thinking that perhaps Obamacare is not such a bad thing. Certainly the bureaucracy which will run Obamacare will be no different than the Post Office and so in this regard we can expect to lose some 25 to 30 percent of those who are truly sick simply from incompetence and stupidity.

And if Obamacare begins rationing medical care, those 5% who cost almost half of our healthcare expenditures will not be covered at all.

In this manner our healthcare costs could be reduced by 75 to 80%. Obamacare could be a good thing. Ignoring for a moment those who die unnecessarily.