Well I didn't read the article, but my ongoing comment is

"This is NOT a HealthCARE bill, it is a Heatlh Coverage or Heatlh Insurance Bill"

IF, as it was totted, it was Health Care Reform it would have had something in it to control the astronomical rise in Health care costs.
It does little to nothing, except by spreading the cost.

An interesting artile I read discusses one reason there has been such a rise in costs.
Back when I was little(I'm almost 58), no one had insurance, you paid out of pocket. As more and more people got insurance costs have risen, so more people got insurance so costs rose, ...
There are other reasons, yes, but this is one cause.

And I still want an explanation of a recent procedure the wife had done, billed 8400, paid under 2k, Insurance and co-pay.
WHY THE DIFFERENCE ??
WHERE DID THE DIFFERENCE GO ??
Did the hospital write it off as unrecoverable or something ?

Funny too, for a struggling health care industry, I see a lot of hospitals building or adding on.


But it's just standard gov procedure, fix the symptom, not the problem.


PS I have said the same about skyrocketing college costs, each time the gov adds a scholarship, grant or ?? the colleges raise their price, so the gov adds more scholarships, grants etc so the colleges raise their price so the ....

This hasn't been helped by the ongoing push of parents, via one mechanism or another, to fund their childs college. When I was yong, parents helped some, but only mnor amounts. Maybe living expenses.
Today they feel that everyone has to have a degree, we have to remember that there are a lot of good jobs for non degree'd folks.

Mechanics, construction, etc.


Both issue's went to a breaking point, but I don't see a solution coming for either.

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