Any suggestion on how to fix an iphone with a broken home button?

I have 3 iphones on my ATT account.  All 3 of these phones have had the home button to stop working.  We had one iphone replaced since it was still under warranty.  I am cautious about even getting another iphone due to this ongoing problem.  Has anyone found a workable solution?  Has apple acknowledged that they are even aware of this issue? I am very frustrated.  If it were an isolated incidence it wouldn't be so bad, but I have found hundreds of pages with complaints of the same problem.

Since this button is mashed a lot, harder by some people than others, it may fail on some iPhones. People who had them break will be posting  on the net for solutions. The millions of people who don't have the issue generally don't feel up hundreds of pages saying, "my home button works all the time."
I've never had a home button fail on my 2 iPhones. There is speculation that Apple could move to a virtual home button to avoid home button problems. It is a mechanical switch, it can fail, but there is no "issue" to report.

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