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To: i-node who wrote (833694)	2/1/2015 12:20:45 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1577183

>> We won't fix the cost problem until we get control over the crazy and wildly varying costs of health care in the US. Right, because, after all, food and cars pricing vary wildly and and THAT is a huge problem. Now that the government is running healthcare, is anyone surprised we're repeating the $600 hammer stories....?

To: i-node who wrote (833694)	2/1/2015 6:18:26 PM
From: Alighieri	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577183

We have known for decades about cost-shifting as a result of Medicare and Medicaid and that it is a central cause of price increases. We have known for decades that government price controls don't work and consistently wreck markets, but government has imposed idiotic price controls on 1/2 of the multi-trillion dollar health care system since 1965. Coincidentally, right about the time costs actually started to become a problem. The true fiscal solution to these problems will not be to your liking anymore than cost shifting. Al