[Nataku X]

I believe that health care spending in America is about 20% of our private spending plus the aforementioned 6.6% government spending. That adds up to about 25% of our total gross income.

The entire socialist world is piggybacking on us.

• End tort reform.
• Make health insurance like car insurance. You don't pay for normal gas fill-ups and the like, you just pay for the big accidents. Same thing with health care.
• Medicare beneficaries should have a $1000 deductible MINIMUM.
• Allow people to import drugs from other countries. Supply & demand will reduce the cost in our country while increasing cost in other countries, thus working against foreign price controls.
• Why the heck do we pay teachers to go through college in exchange for 5 years' work while letting med school students accumulate hundreds of thousands of dollars' debt?

<flame suit on>

[webstersII]

"I believe that health care spending in America is about 20% of our private spending plus the
aforementioned 6.6% government spending. "

You're mixing numbers. It said 6.6% of GDP, not gov't spending. It's more like 25-30% of gov't spending.

But I thought the real numbers were more like 14% of GDP.