Here is my take on why health care costs are so high

[PhiLandShiR 18]

It's one of those 'unlawful acts' that people commit every day.

Thats very true... just remember that the next time you get stopped for a tail light being out or running a red light or....

Just because they don't charge you now, does not mean they never will...

[w¡n9Nµ7 §£@¥€r 123]

Thats very true... just remember that the next time you get stopped for a tail light being out or running a red light or....

I have been. No biggie.

[Dan J 277]

So the constant need to have the newest and best equipment has nothing to do with patient's (i.e. consumer) need to know they are receiving the 'best' [care]? I understand that if a machine is in working condition, only a couple of models behind the latest one, it should still work just fine and hospitals should continue to use it....but maybe a patient will pass that hospital up and get treatment at the next place where they do have the newest model of that equipment.

Why do people buy newer models of things, when the old one is perfectly functional? Don't let that "more efficient" or "more accurate" or more whatever label fool you...you buy that new car, fridge, dishwasher...whatever because its newer, more modern, basically more appealing than the outdated model you currently have.

The same goes for certain procedures. A newer procedure does not necessarily produce better outcomes (in some cases it can produce worse outcomes), but its recommend because the doctor gets paid more to do it.

[Ali G. 37]

Best be careful about that. Importing drugs into the US can land you in a heap of dodo...

You're joking? So the bastards have even got that angle covered. Therefore, we just have to take it and call it capitalism.

[PhiLandShiR 18]

You're joking? So the bastards have even got that angle covered. Therefore, we just have to take it and call it capitalism.

I do not joke. A few years back people flocked across the border at Seattle to get scripts filled in Canada. The Feds jumped on it pretty hard.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

You're joking? So the bastards have even got that angle covered. Therefore, we just have to take it and call it capitalism.

Hell, it's purposefully written into the new health care bill to continue to protect domestic pharmaceutical companies by blocking imports.... quite pathetic really.

[Ali G. 37]

I do not joke. A few years back people flocked across the border at Seattle to get scripts filled in Canada. The Feds jumped on it pretty hard.

So the corporations had the government prosecute their people, for simply trying to purchase affordable pharmaceuticals. I am really starting to wonder who runs America. It's just strange that I cannot find the world corporation or even unfettered capitalism in the Constitution. Anyone know where these terms are? Yet some like Soffia actually advocate for less government and more self-regulation. I'm a conservative and that makes no sense to me whatsoever.

As I said earlier, about time you guys demand the government elected by the people start listening to the 90 per cent, rather than the demands of the 10 per cent. Surely the Constitution has no provisions which state those who line a politicians pockets more, should yield the greatest influence and power over the country.

Edited April 22, 2010 by Ali G.

[mawilson 2,133]

I am really starting to wonder who runs America.

The Republican-Democrat Corporate Fascist Regime.

[Obama 2012 1,714]

Don't you know who's running it BY? It's the NWO man!

[Ban Hammer 13,408]

The least I could do is bring a live chicken to the table.

spooky's bringing the sheep.

[Usui Takumi 1,562]

The Republican-Democrat Corporate Fascist Regime.

OMG, I think we are all actually in agreement. That's pretty scary.