Why are our heath care costs so very high, as compared to other countries?

We did it your way and you (*)(*)(*)(*)ed it up. Tax cuts or stimulus won't matter now. You can't un(*)(*)(*)(*) something like this. Someone needs to come up with a new idea for a change. The old world is dead, now. Say goodbye and let's get on with it.

 

No extra money for doctors that is for sure. They are making too much due to lack of competition. If you do not like that you have to pay 200K for your education, go abroad and you get you education for five time less.

 

Reality would say otherwise.

Link.

 

That is not my business how much he has paid for his education. If government allows medical school overcharge students it is not a problem of mine.
Whoever does not like to pay exorbitant price for education can go abroad and pay at least three times less.

 

Why are our heath care costs so very high, as compared to other countries?

Because you live in a Country so totally dominated by capitalism that the insurance companies have to be paid enormous sums, and even so the other rich squeal and squeak like slaughtered pigs at the horrible thought that anyone should be allowed to live without paying them for the priviledge.

 

I don't think capitalism is a right word. More appropriate word is a big scale corruption. Government set up this system, where people has to pay not only to doctors and medical facilities but also to health insurances.

 

Whether you feel it is your business or not it still factors into the equation. A doctors office is a business. It has revenue and expenses. You can't look at revenue and make a comment about profits until you see ALL the expenses.

 

The 'actual truth' according to Cessna! I guess no other countries with UHC have CAT scanners, MRI scanners or any other diagnostic machinery? Is that right?
In addition you have a healthcare 'system' which offers no aftercare to those with no insurance, after they have had, for example, emergency room admission treatment. Do you really want a system like that? I certainly do not, and I'm glad to be living in a country which offers cradle-to-grave healthcare at no cost to me at the point of delivery. No bills. Ever.

 

The heath care problem in the US is very easy to correct. The problem is Obama and the Democrats do not have the will to do it.

Obamacare will make this problem worse and not better. It will add thousands of new people to our health care rolls who will abuse the system and drive up its costs like these people from Camden, New Jersey continue to do time and time again. Why do liberals like you tolerate and encourage this kind of abuse to our health care system?

A crucial statistic from CNN on the high costs of heath care in the USA:

New Jersey’s Camden Coalition of Healthcare Providers founder and family medicine practitioner, Jeffrey Brenner, used medical billing records to find that just 1% of patients accounted for 30% of health care costs in Camden. And that's not all he discovered in the city's three hospitals. He says: "We learned that someone went 113 times in one year. Someone went 324 times in five years. In similar workup in Trenton, they found someone who went 450 times in one year." These were people with complicated medical histories and chronic illnesses. One patient alone racked up $3.5 million in medical bills over a five year period. As Brenner says, :"They're the difficult patients to treat, and no one is being paid and incentivized to pay attention to them."

What's more, Camden's problem is America's problem. Just 5% of Americans accounted for half of our nation's health care costs in 2009. This is perhaps the crucial statistic to understand about America's health care problem.

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/28/the-world-of-the-u-s-health-care-issue/

 

People get sick; that's something legislation won't change. Here's a radical idea-scrap your venal insurance middle-men who contribute zero to healthcare and are in it purely for the money.

 

Actually Michelle Obama has been addressing your concerns regarding diet and exercise. She has a campaign called "Let's Move."

 

See Dr. Sandusky, he'll stick something up your ass whether you like it or not.

Doctors are not allowed to force you to take treatment, the GOVERNMENT says so.

Medicare ALONE has 150,000 pages of regulations. No way can healthcare obey those and be reasonably priced.