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Originally Posted by Villages Kahuna
The cost of healthcare in this country is escalating at a rate so rapidly that it will even more seriously reduce the number of people who have healthcare insurance to alarmingly high rates in as little as a decade. We already spend twice as much per capita for healthcare than any other country in the world. The cost to our economy is already too great and further cost growth is unsustainable.
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Very misleading. For example, 8 years ago my wife had a carple tunnel procedure. Very painful, recovery took about six weeks, and ended up with a vicadin problem. Met someone the other day that had the same procedure and was back out on the golf course in 1 week. It cost a lot more because of the new robotic equipment used for the surgery. Is this runaway medical inflation, or improved treatment worth every extra dollar. Rising costs are due to medical advances that improve our lives. Think how much money could be saved if we rolled back the clock 10 years and froze medical innovation at those levels.
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About 20% of our population has no healthcare insurance whatsoever and that number is growing at the rate of 14,000 people per day. The U.S. is the only developed country in the world that does not provide for the healthcare for all of it's citizens.
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Assume that is true. Take out people here illegally, those that can afford insurance but don't want to pay for it and those eligible for Medicaid but don't apply for it, and those numbers drop considerably. 14,000 per day is how many people lose their jobs, thus their health insurance. Focus on fixing the economy, and that goes away.
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Statistics demonstrate that, regardless of the claims made by partisans and politicians, the health of the American citizenry does not compare favorably with other countries in the developed world. For as much as we spend, we aren't getting our money's worth.
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Statistics don't explain why people come to the USA for medical treatment that they can't get in their own countries. If the USA were just like everybody else when it comes to health care, where would they go. Where would we go.
There are ares of health care reform that both parties can agree on. How about we just stick to those areas, and not redo the entire system.