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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (8408)	8/19/2009 1:08:23 PM
From: TimF	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

OK, but increases in those factors do not account for all, or probably even a majority, of the growth in health care costs, so eliminating them won't eliminate health care cost increases. Still doesn't mean we should try to reign in these factors. Just that 1 - They are only part of the picture. 2 - Even with efforts on the other parts we are unlikely to stop the increase in costs (almost no chance to do it in nominal total dollar terms, very unlikely in real per capita dollars, possible but difficult in terms of percentage of GDP)