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HEALTH CARE REFORM TEETERING ON THE EDGE OF FAILURE
Your comment, "This country desperately needs health care reform - if for no other reason than to get a handle on the out of control rise in costs." is interesting. I do not feel that there is any way to control the costs of health care in this country at the moment except for rationing and that’s not going to happen in my lifetime. It is my opinion that the main cause of increasingly higher health care costs is the American Public. We want it all, we want it now, and we don't want to pay for it. It's that simple. When you have a commodity such as health care that has minimal if any restrictions on demand, costs are going to increase. Simple economics comes into play here. The only real restriction is how much of our GDP do we wish to use for health care? If we choose to have unrestricted at any price health care where anyone can walk into a hospital or doctor’s office and obtain any procedure from a brain extraction to a big toectomy and walk out without having to take costs into account, then we as the American Public are going to have to pay a greater percentage of our GDP for that type of service. GDP is a limited fixed finite amount. The outcome is that we will have less money to spend on other commodities such as food, housing, transportation, energy, etc. The American Public doesn’t want that outcome either. Maybe we should impose a health care tax on our exports to make others pay. Sounds like the American way to me. Tax someone else.
Further, as more and more technical and medication advances are made to prolong and improve lives, the American Public's demand for those services are only going to increase. The American Public does enjoy the latest and greatest in medical care, especially technology. The capital costs of technical advances are enormous.
The American Public is not going to put up with a Canadian or UK style health care system that rations. That thinking is just not in our philosophy. What, the American Public does without.
Obama care is going to solve nothing and increase costs and lower service. It will benefit just a few and will not affect the Elite. Leave it the way it is. In my opinion the American Public does not realize just how good our health care systems is and the benefits that we derive from it. Personally we should all get down and kiss the ground and be thankful for all we have in this world.
Comment Posted By Splendiferous On 16.08.2009 @ 18:08
