Posted On: November 29, 2006, 3:17 pm CST

Posted By: steved

I agree Indian, there is no one reason for the inflated health care cost, it is
complicated. And I dont advocate doing away with the heath care insurance. I was just pointing out that so many people complain about the high cost of health Insurance but never look at the high cost of health care. I certainly dont know the answer, atwood is correct that we already have a semi-socialized medicine with medicare and medicade. With the internal limits payable with medicare and medicade (DRGs) they have put a cap to spiraling health care costs at least on their end. However I believe that just causes yours and my bills to be higher to help recoup losses for medicare and medicade. I like the notion of requiring all people to carry a minimal heath coverage policy, when could be payable from their social security withholdings from each paycheck. Of course mandatory auto insurance has been a failure as well, so Im not sure how this could be enforced either.