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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4739512/Couple-commit-suicide-health-care-costs.html

The couple left behind suicide notes in a ziploc bag, that also included their IDs. Police have not released their names yet, but a photo obtained by the New York Post shows part of the letter, and it identifies the woman as Patricia. The note was titled 'We had a wonderful life'.

A law enforcement source who spoke with the Post said the woman's note said: 'Our kids are upstairs, please take care of them'.

The man left one behind too, which read: 'We both have medical issues, we just can't afford the health care.'

This will happen more and more frequently as our corrupt political system continues to pass laws extracting more and more money from everyone by law via the excuse of "health care".

There is no reason we should all be forced to pay more than three times as much as any other country for care that is arguably worse, except that medical and insurance lobbyists demand it and pay off our lawmakers to trap us like chickens in a factory farm.

Government and business both attempt by their nature to trap and control the public. That's fine as long as they don't actually succeed. Competition is good, monopolies are not. When the political and business elites manage to combine forces to perfect their enslavement of the public and eliminate all other options, there will be a revolution.

To avoid this, a good first step would be the requirement that all medical prices be published in advance of treatment to allow at least a little bit of downward market pressure on prices.