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idlisambar

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Tue Aug-02-05 01:27 PM
Response to Reply #81

90. on what basis

I would suggest that in each of these cases the benefits of competition are less than the costs -- waste in marketing, duplication of research, the need to satisfy investors with a return.

If you could make an argument for why competition would help in health insurance, for example, I would like to hear it. It seems a weak case to me given that empirically government run health insurance has been shown to be less wasteful whether you examine Medicare or other state run health care systems.

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