Working In These Times

Willard Gatzke 2 Nov 2009
4:19 pm

I can’t help but think that by the time all the “special interests” are represented, and back room deals are done, that the resultant bill will be something akin to an all purpose tool.  In trying to do everything, it will do nothing particularly well.

What troubles me most is the simple fact that there were two main reasons for reform in the first place.  The uninsured, and spiraling health care costs.  I can see where most proposals will address the problem of the uninsured, but how about costs?  What is being done to address that part of the equation?  Every bill talks about 800 billion to one trillion added. 

If we indeed pay nearly twice as much as our industrialized competitors in Per capita outlays, why can’t we get the costs down in line with other modern countries?

Follow the money.  That is usually where the answers lie.