Lost in the debate over who to cover with health insurance and how to structure it is any meaningful discussion of how to substantially reduce the costs of these [already bloated and oversubsidized] industries, of 'Medical Care' and 'Health Insurance'.
As long as we continue the flawed "Cost-Plus" arrangements in health care that are now [thankfully] being abandoned in defense procurement, costs will continue to escalate - even if we didnt cover one additional person.
Merely extending the Medicare/Medicaid strategy of establishing "Price Supports" - minimum federal price guarantees - under every procedure, to 47 million additional victims will not only waste money, it will cost lives. There are better ways to do this...<more>