We crawl down each other’s throats arguing over whether an employer or the government should be paying for health care instead of asking the only pertinent question. Why is health care so expensive in the U.S. that no one other than an employer or the government can afford to pay for it?
If a manufacturer makes a car that people can’t afford to buy he either figures out how to make it cheaper, takes less profit on it, or goes out of business. If health care can’t be afforded by the average person we don’t shop for cheaper health care or demand that the provider take less profit, we argue about how to shift the costs around until someone else is paying for it.
We’re addressing it the wrong way. Instead of arguing over who pays for health care we should be asking who is getting rich off of the exhorbitant cost of U.S. health care and why. We’re getting milked in the U.S., telling me it costs $10,000 a night for a hospital room or $25 for an aspirin I can buy for a penny at wal-mart isn’t believeable. We need to get to the root of the organized crime that’s ripping us off, follow the money and go after the crooks behind the curtain. Shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic isn’t cutting it.
All very true. And we see the iceberg! It’s there right in front of US. The dynamics need to change.