Saturday, February 27, 2010

HC Blame Game

Officials Racing to Pin Blame for High Health Costs | TopNews United States: "The fight over who is to be blamed for the rising health-care costs is now escalating, as officials and groups look to pin the problem on each other and say that none of the health-care legislations under consideration have managed to do enough to solve it.

In 2009, US spending on healthcare hit a record figure of $2.5 Trillion, as have been shared by Federal estimate. Over the coming 10 years, it is expected to climb to $4.5 Trillion..."

So when is someone going to talk about limiting ER health care for the uninsured, noncitizens? Or capping the costs that hospitals can pass along to the insured? Or the benefits to businesses if government takes over the cost of health care? There is plenty of blame to go around, but there are also plenty of potential solutions to be tried, most of which don't have anything to do with cutting taxes or invading Iran.

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