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Originally Posted by Guest
This topic deserves intelligent dialog and it's no surprise when is turns into a bunch of dribble filled with opinion and very little fact. We should be discussing why medical care is so expensive, not who's paying for it. Where's the money. A middle class family should be able to pay for routine medical care without insurance as we used to. What happened? I believe for profit medical care happened. Shareholders, attorneys, CEOs, etc profiting from others illness. I believe in free enterprise but this system we have created is in a profit feeding frenzy. (IMO)
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No one cares about the COST of health care when their donors would be affected.
No one addressed the high cost of malpractice insurance. Do we really need to prove how high it is per year when it has been beat to death? If you are a doctor and have to pay a hundred grand or more per year, would you not pass it on to the patient?
Overhead. Doctors have to hire a whole staff and pay competitive wages and benefits.
Office space and utilities
Lab service costs for equipment and overhead.
Health care is costly, because anyone can sue anyone for any amount of money. Texas reduced costs by instituting Tort Reform. Doctors streamed into Texas after that.
Competition was not addressed in Obamacare either. Very important but not even considered. We can buy car insurance on line and across states. They compete with each other for our money. Do the same with health insurance.
Just two ideas that the left could have worked on and would have had the GOP involved. Nope, they do NOT want to lower the cost. They (the left) want socialized medicine, period.