The Potemkin Presidency meets a moment of sanity in The New York Times (with an observation from Hilaire Belloc and an admonition from Friedrich Hayek)
It is medicaid and medicare that are one of the major culprits.
There is no incentive to competition, and it opens the way to abuse by patients.
The function of the AMA as a “labor Union” does not help matter either.
And of course there is the trail lawyer business.
The problem with health care in this country i that there is too much government involved in the first place.
It is just another government racket. Obamacare will make it a million times worse.
We might get de facto euthanasia out of this. I would not be surprised to find that access to health care is used in a political weapon. It was in the USSR.
It is a simple practical matter to address healthc are costs; It is a nearly impossible political matter for the electorate seems to neither have the desire or the capacity to address the real issues.




















