Health care has become a self-sustaining enterprise, just like our educational system. The War on drugs, terror, and cancer are in this category also.

It is an effort by the insurance companies and health providers to concentrate wealth upwards to Wall St.- just the opposite of "trickle down" economics.

It may be the best healthcare system in the world, if you're rich and sick. Life expectancy and infant mortality figures don't bear this out, IMO. It is not available to the average working schmuck. My biggest single expense is health insurance- more than car insurance (2 vehicles) homeowners insurance and property taxes COMBINED.

Representative Alan Grayson of Florida says it best- "don't get sick, and if you do, die quickly"