The government shouldn't do anything to remedy "it"

 
Sign up for Medicaid, if you want government health insurance.

Matt, don't you receive Medicare, and or use VA medical facilities?

When Obama visited the House Republicans a few years ago, Mike Pence actually had to hand him a leather bound list of Republican proposals b/c Barry kept running around saying the R's only want the "status quo." Pence pointed out that the R's had submitted many proposals to the WH previously and the WH never responded to any of them.

Want examples? Buying insurance across state lines, making HC premium payments tax deductible like corporations do, tort reform, etc etc etc. All great ideas. All shit canned by Obama.

The R's passed the "If you lie your HC plan you can keep your HC plan" act in the House. Reid is blocking that from the Senate floor. Why? If Obama DIDN'T lie about it, you would think he would want to fix it, right?

My question to you is, why won't Obama let DEMOCRATS in the Senate allow bills to come to the Senate floor for a vote?

He is always out there b.s.ing the American people saying he is open to "any idea" that will help. Really? He won't even take ideas from his OWN party, why in the world would he listen to R's ideas???????

Some interesting data there.

One has to wonder why the countries are changed up from point to point. A little cherry picking going on maybe?

Regarding pharmaceuticals, virtually everyone but the US has imposed government price controls. The end result is that we are now subsidizing the majority of R&D costs. We could follow suit and then be left with diminishing new technology in drug research. Or leave it to the government to totally decide where the R&D dollars are spent. The US for the most part is still willing to pay more for end of life support than other countries although with ACA we are following suit; remember Obama’s suggestion that maybe grandma should take a pain pill rather than get the procedure? There does seem to be some issues when large sums of money are spent for a new drug that increases longevity on average 3 to 4 months at a cost of tens of thousands. What you don’t hear about are the minority of those cases where the patient is cured. It gets down to what people are willing to pay. Some can afford it, some can’t. If everyone can’t have it then should everyone be denied?

But free enterprise is the key to keeping costs down. Look at your data for services rendered. The US data includes a range of prices but not for other country data. Why? Probably  because it doesn’t exist for non US data. Once again, price controls. Price controls inevitably results in one form or another of rationing. What is very telling is that in several cases the low price data in the US is the same or even less than other countries. What does this mean? It means there are places where market forces are allowed to function that resulted in a satisfactory service rendered at a globally competitive price. The answer is more of this not less. If health care dollars were to pass through people’s hands (regardless who is originating the dollars) then costs would be driven down because there would be millions of free market watch dogs in play (instead of a handful of insurance companies or one government agency, CMS).

When dealing with our healthcare problems everyone conflates the delivery system with the payment system. We’ve got the best delivery system in the world, regardless what the naysayers point to, e.g. life expectancy and infant mortality. It’s our payment system that’s all messed up and the way that Obamacare is changing things we are on a path of ruining the delivery system as well (but that’s their goal)