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Oh yea, we're forgetting about the no insurance glory days of pre-WW1 medicine!

If your definition of "worked" is letting everybody die because most of modern medicine hadn't been invented yet, than sure, going back to those days would certainly drive down costs. No need for those expensive CT scan machines anymore, just rub some dirt on it.



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