Unreal stupidity .
The unreal stupidity comes from so-called conservatives who mindlessly defend expensive health care instead of exploring ways to make it more affordable and easing the burden on the taxpayers.
Is there a rule that says the government should pay only for hospital and nursing home stays? Why are the most expensive forms of health care sancrosanct with some people but better and cheaper alternatives are off-limits?
We need to look at transitioning health care in the 21st Century both to save money and attain better outcomes. Just because we have done it a certain way in the past doesn’t mean we should do it the same way in the future.
The whole idea of health care is to give people a choice in how manage it like in deciding where its best for them to live. That should be their decision, not made for them by government bureaucrats.
Its hardly socialism to empower the individual and to be frugally conscious about how to spend public health care dollars.