Earl, health care in the US is highly regulated. So is public education. The US spends more on both. It is what regulation does. It reduces choices, competition and quality and increases costs. Another example would be the banking industrial complex. Lots of regulations to benefit bankers and lots of cost for everyone else. You can find this phenomenon widely distributed. The country has been legislated into bankruptcy.
I understand France and other European countries have similar outcomes.
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