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

To: greatplains_guy who wrote (24613)	8/30/2012 12:26:44 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 42652

> By passing laws to force insurance companies to cover things that have nothing to do with risk, politicians force up the cost of insurance. This is, of course, true -- which is why the mandate that plans cover birth control are so ridiculous. But the really big cause of prices going up is the disruption to the markets causes by government taking control of half of the health care system -- Medicare and Medicaid. The amounts they don't pay have to come from somewhere, and they do -- from the private portion of the system. The more these programs are cut, the more those costs are shifted to private business lines. It creates a never-ending upward price spiral. There have been a number of economic analyses over the years that have determined this with some specificity.