[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Originally Posted by marklewis121

Health care costs for individuals, are strongly related to age. The older one gets, the more care required.

Wow, that's just amazingly deep! Do you work in healthcare or something, that you thought of it? I'm going to have to go away and think about it in some detail, and pray of course, before I can deal with it.

Thank you so much for your insight.

[alooneymormon]

Originally Posted by Rev. M. Rodimer

GTSoup -

Since you already have your own long-winded answer, why are you asking us?

If you want a real answer, here you go:

1. Obesity. People sit on their fat behinds, eating garbage, and staring at the TV all day. They have low income, thus have no insurance. Our liberal laws require hospitals to eat the cost when these lazy slobs waddle in for an emergency bypass operation, to the tune of $100K or more, and then immediately declare bankruptcy so they don't have to pay the bill. Those costs get passed along to everyone else.
I guess only poor people are fat? If these people had insurance, they would have had preventative care, possibly avoiding the bypass. If they did need the bypass, it would not become the taxpayers burden.
2. Frivolous lawsuits. People sue every chance they get, for as much as they can get, always looking for a free ride. They, like you, think that overworked doctors are "negligent" because they made a mistake, and should be responsible not just for correcting an error but for setting the litigant up for life with millions in "punitive damages". Malpractice insurance costs a fortune.
How many lawyers does Trump have? Cheney? Romey?
3. Regulations. The new health care disaster has INCREASED health insurance costs for small businesses. Instead of offering a catastrophic care policy, they're now forced to offer comprehensive health care. Some companies, like McDonald's, are simply DROPPING health insurance coverage for their part-time employees, because these plans are no longer acceptable under Obamacare . . . and full coverage would cost more than the employees earn in wages.
McDonalds is not a small business. They make their billions off minimum wage workers. If McDs doesnt offer insurance, the workers may then go work for Burger King to work. It a free market.
But I'm sure you won't consider any of those issues. It's all rich people being greedy, right?
Yes, it is all about people being greedy, rich and poor. It all about the money. See what happens if this country decides to tax churches....
By the way, the US has the most advanced medicine in the world because the people who put up billions of their private dollars for research and development -- much of which goes down the drain when drugs fail -- are able to earn a return on the investment.

American health care is the most expensive in the world and has the worst outcomes of the countries which are similar in economy and lifestyle. And people who put money into business are called investors. Free markets encourage investments.

[Witch Hammer]

Originally Posted by alooneymormon

American health care is the most expensive in the world and has the worst outcomes of the countries which are similar in economy and lifestyle. And people who put money into business are called investors. Free markets encourage investments.

That's funny, because I never read any of that nonsense in the Bible. Stop making things up, liar!

[Freddy Osborne]

Originally Posted by Glorious Tortoise Soup

What is causing health care costs to increase so significantly in the U.S.?

All the unemployed liberals getting abortions and transgender operations.

[Mary Etheldreda]

Big Pharma is just raking in the profits with the scare tactics they KNOW will raise prices even though their policies do NOTHING! All they need to do is convince people that "germs" and little tiny things are more dangerous than anything else, and so they shoot other "germs" and little tiny things in behind them to bully them out of the way. Only they don't. Because that's silliness.



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