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Virtually everything that the government does costs more than when the same thing is done in private industry - whether it is building housing, running prisons, collecting garbage, or innumerable other things. Why in the world would we imagine that health care would be the exception?

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Thomas Sowell
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: June 30
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Gastonia
North Carolina
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