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Politics : A US National Health Care System?
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To: Road Walker who wrote (8168)8/18/2009 5:40:20 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 42652
 
Health care costs becoming significantly lower, or going even slightly down in a durable way, is an unrealistic hope, if your talking about costs in terms of nominal dollars, or real dollars, or nominal or real dollars per person.

Its possible the costs could go down as a percentage of GDP, or in other words grow slower than the economy as a whole, but there are a lot of factors working against that, several of which I mentioned in my last post. The factors I mentioned will mostly continue (well we might stop getting fatter, and we might even temporarily stop getting older on the average if you have a lot of births or baby boomer deaths during a period of a few years).

But reducing the rate that health care costs are growing (by any measure, esp, by % of GDP) might be possible, and might even be possible without slowing the improvement of health care services.
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