The system began going to hell when people stopped having to pay their own bills, and mandates flowed out from the government insisting that insurance had to pay ALL the bills. It only got worse in the 60s when the government began picking up the bills directly. You can actually see the knee in the curve of medical costs at that point.
I have the hospital bill somewhere for my own birth. Several days in the hospital, a couple of hundred dollars.
What needs to be done is to try to turn the tanker slowly around, and begin injecting market forces back into the system.
The left's hostility to even the smallest step in this direction is self-evident. Their solution to EVERY problem is to let the government run things. It's why they have easy pat answers to "what should we do" and mine are far more difficult to explain.
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- Stealth health care nationalization
- Health care nationalization
- Conservative word-spin. I'm reading about this all over.
- It could gravitate that way
- I thought Obama said he wasn't going to allow underhanded legislation?
- And what's your plan for getting preventative health care to all citizens? (n/t)