Fred :
#1 is an assertion – If you bother to read Atul Gawande’s article, you can start to see how to control costs. We already have rationing for teh 50 million Americans who do not have health care. I had to go to the emergency room a couple of years ago. They held me overnight. The bill before the insurance deduction as $9,500. After the deduction it was $3,500. If I were uninsured I would have been liable for the former amount. That is insane.
I believe we as a country have a moral obligation to make sure everyone is covered. What is your postion -Let them eat cake?
No system is perfect, but ours is broken. The administrative expense is 15% higher than the one in Canada. We are on a collision course with the current system. What are your solutions?
One of the problems is that there are too few family docs. Medicaid pays them too little; so the poor go to the emergency room where the average cost is over $1,000 per visit
