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Appeal-Democrat, the Sutter-Yuba counties (California) newpaper, says that universal healthcare sounds good, but it is utopian and it will bankrupt our country. An editorial published today says that the only way for America to reduce its healthcare costs is for the government to get less and not more involved in healthcare.

Incidentally, California's governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been a campaigner for universal healthcare, but his $14.9 billion universal healthcare plan failed to pass the state legislature last year.

In countries like Britain and much of Europe, however, almost universal, publicly-funded healthcare has been a fact for more than half a century. And that is why, in spite of their economies being in almost as bad a shape as ours, there is less of sheer human suffering.