Next up the Govt. will be buying life insurance on everybody. Govt. involvement in healthcare is what makes the price so high. Red doesn't understand that life isn't fair and people have to die. It's called REALITY.
Nobody has said their, you made it up. Insurance company greed and industry-wide waste is why the price is too high. When you don't have a logical thought on the health care act, you just offer stupid comments.
How can government involvement in health care be the driving force behind the high prices when government hasn't even fully involved itself in health care? Health care costs have been rising for years and Obamacare was written to address the rising costs of health care. Whether it did exactly that is debatable and a different subject altogether but make no mistake, the government didn't make health care costs rise; people who refused to get health care yet showed up at emergency rooms whenever they get sick and never pay, and an inefficient health care record keeping system are the causes of rising health care costs.
It's really simple. Take from those who earn...to give to those who don't...so those who won't contribute...can still have the right to vote. It's not about health care. It's about buying votes. If we were really concerned about fairness and greed we would address tort reform. Oops...I forgot. It's okay to be rich & greedy, or to have armed security, or to burn fossil fuel as long as you're on the left. Typical hypocrites. Ha ha...just keep paying your taxes for those who take advantage of the system. I love reading how people defend Obama while he's sticking it to them. I hope he hits you even harder fools! The government hasn't involved itself in health care? Ha...are you serious? Obamacare addressed the rising cost of health care by doing what? It must be reverse psychology...he helped drive cost up to help it go down? Whatever. Just keep paying fool! Just make sure you smile when you bend over and grab your ankles.
I don't know where you've been NC, the feds have been deeply involved in health care since the mid 1960's. Medicare sets the standard for drug prices, pay for services rates and hospital rates and riases the every year. The insurance industry uses them to base their re imbursments on. The big tail wagging of medicare's influence has done more to set the curve for medical costs than anything. That dampening of competition to me is the biggest factor in the rise in the cost of healthcare. The other points you made certainly contribute to the problem. I do believe if there were true and open competition for the HC dollar the reforms in service and record keeping possibly even a change away from the "fee for service" model would be happening now rather than still being on some remote horizon. Likewise if healthcare were more efficient and less costly as a percent of GDP it may be possible to justify more help for the truly needy who do need help.
Vote republican and this won't happen. Then you could just manage your healthcare freely with those corporations you are so scared of.
Where have you been? http://docs4patientcare.org/_blog/R...sult_of_Government_Intervention_in_Healthcare
All of those changes are happening. What exactly is this "Dampening of competition" that you speak of.
