On May 2, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Somebody Somebody wrote:
> Now the issue of the patchwork quilt of private insurers hiking up the costs of U.S. health care is a legitimate issue, but the solution should not be to slash health care spending per se. It should instead be to maximize the health benefits per dollar spent, by, for instance instituting greater price controls and a single-payer government run health service. But, of course, nothing of the kind is being sought, and instead we're being told we must "bend the curve" of health spending through relentless austerity.
If the NIH/EPA were redirected to uncovering 'causes and cures', and applying the research, instead of permitting the insco/pharma/hospitals to control research and prescribe palliative treatments, layer upon layer, the situation would change. Seniors understand the impossibility of the present situation, which is why they can be motivated by fear of 'death panels'.
martin