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To: t4texas who wrote (547033)	11/21/2013 10:37:42 AM
From: Thehammer	Respond to of 795439

the answer and reply to the allegation healthcare costs have come down due to obamacare. heart surgeon and ex-senator from Tennessee answers the latest claim by obama administration that healthcare costs have come down due to obamacare. he says in this short video, in answer to isaacson's dem party line claim, that five studies have been done in past 40 years looking at this, and what is found is medical costs go up 2% over inflation in any time period. when the econ is going all right, medical costs go up. when the economy is not going all right (like the past five or six years) medical costs flatten with the decline in the economy. (still at 2% of inflation) thus the apparent decline in medical costs is nothing more than the decline in the economy and inflation having declined a lot. the video is only about 3 minutes long, and it addresses this issue pretty completely with data and five studies in last 40 years (he says). this is the info to use the next time the obama people toss out lower medical cost red herrings. Thanks for that - very informative. Zerocare was never designed to attack the fundamental causes of health care inflation (except one aspect) and was designed to achieve universal coverage. I felt if universal coverage was achieved and with all the coverage mandates that we'd have tremendous price pressure on health care costs (greater demand and decreased supply). It would have made more sense to attack the fundamental causes of health cost inflation first and then trying to address the universal coverage issue without compromising the health insurance of those already covered.