[mellow velo]

>> As long as healthcare is so dominated by the government, then the government has a big role to play in making sure it is not prohibitively expensive. <<

Huh?! Government is one of the primary reasons why healthcare is prohibitively expensive.

Also, you seem to keep confusing health care with health coverage. They are not interchangeable. As was pointed out upthread, Federal law already addressed care. The market, not the government, should be enabled to take care of the coverage.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I disagree.

If we’re going to make people responsible for healthcare expenses, then the government needs to get out of regulating healthcare. We need freedom.

We do not currently have such a system however. Government is very, very much involved in medical licensing, and regulation. Big time.

If we’re going to keep the government involved in meddling and controlling healthcare, then the government needs to not allow people to be taken to the cleaners, by it.

One or the other.