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Originally Posted by billethkid
the so called costs in the health care business is directly attributable to fraud, price gouging by pharmaceutical companies, political and other government protection of the pharmaceutical companies (just like oil) and probably the biggest contributor to health care costs the US Government for it's lack of action(s) to curtail all the above....because it is in their personal self interest to do nothing....just as in oil and energy.....and too many to mention other hose jobs...
we the people get stuck with the end result.
We the majority are getting what we deserve because we allow it to continue.
Obamascare is only more icing on an already, long ago baked cake.....destined to break the back of what we think is bad now. What you have today is the best health care at the lowest price not to be continued in the foreseeable future. You will pay more in the years to come to TRY to remain at parity with what you now have. Future costs in and of itself will be a rationing in effect shutting out those who just cannot afford what needs to be done.
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Have you actually analyzed the amount of Medicare fraud, Billie? Last time I looked, those who analyze such things estimated that fraudulent claims contribute somewhere in the range of $60-80 billion per year, about 15-20% of total Medicare expenditures. That's certainly not insignificant, but it's a long way from your allegation that increasing healthcare costs are directly attributable to fraud and the government's unwillingness to attack the problem.
Did you ever ask the amount of fraudulent claims made against private health insurance companies, and how much they might add to skyrocketing premiums? Surely, you're not asserting that the private insurers have fraud completely in check, are you? Of course, you surely recognize that just like government insurance, we pay for fraud against private insurers too. You've noted I'm sure that then insurance company's profit margins don't decline, but our premiums have doubled in just five years. Do you think that private insurers are also subject to fraud, just like Medicare?