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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (803977)	8/27/2014 4:08:19 PM
From: i-node	Respond to of 1588208

Ten, we don't learn from our mistakes. Medicare/Medicaid are major driving forces behind health costs chronic escalation. Of course, innovation is expensive, so it is, too. But when half the health care economy is price-controlled, it is no surprise to see cost increases jammed into the other half at about twice the rate we'd otherwise have. Cost shifting has been cited in hundreds of reports as a key driver of US health care costs increasing. If anyone seriously believes the federal government, which has yet to do anything on schedule or on budget, can improve the situation, they simply aren't thinking. Our health care costs will appear reasonable -- just as they were in 1965 -- once we start getting government out of the health care business. Which will only happen when it goes flat broke.