Why Health Care in America is so Expensive, Really

This analysis logically demonstrates how the government is being anything but transparent when claiming that health care costs can be controlled without government rationing of care. The author argues instead for "self-rationing" as the real solution to controlling health care costs, where consumers buy their own insurance.

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• health care reform
• health insurance reform
• government option
• public option
• single payer
• Medicare
• Medicaid
• tort reform

[regebro]

Quite correct. I say the same thing in my video on the problem with health care.

[TimFlanegin]

@regebro, Thank you for the support of my conclusions about health care costs. Please send me the specific link to your video on the same subject as I would like to watch it.

[BeaveHolio]

@socialistagenda

Look up any government subsidy.

[gwen110]

Self rationing . . . I don't want to think about this. I just want the helicopter to come get me when I have broke my leg on top of old smokey.

[regebro]

It's here on YouTube, called "The problem with Health care", part 1 and part 2. I can't post links. :-/

[regebro]

Well, if you study the real evidence, and economy in general, this works out. If people get things for free, they are going to use as much as they can, even if they don't need it. Because it's free! And obviously, you'll use health care that you aren't sure you need, just to be sure. Because we all want to be healthy.

A part of the cost of medication and basic health care must be directly payed by the patient, or the result is spiraling costs, as in the US, or long waiting lists, as in Sweden.

[AGoodNewsPost]

Good Vid. As a Self Employed, at 55, my yearly HC cost is $3,600.00, w/ $5,000 deduct. A far cry from the cost, as we have heard, of business benefit HC cost.

[socialistagenda]

Your conclusion that health care would cost less today if Medicare and Medicaid never existed is an assumption for which you offered no empirical evidence. Trying to rationalizing an emotional impulse, or gut feeling, or unsupported opinion, does the health care debate a grave injustice. There are too many people making erroneous conclusions because they don't take the time to study real evidence or actual facts.