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To: neolib who wrote (308651)	8/22/2016 11:27:38 PM
From: Sam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543273

The problem is spiraling premium cost, not upping the subsidies which only some get, or upping help with deductibles. But premium costs spiral because there are no controls on hospital, drug, or medical equipment costs. Truthfully, I don't know how those costs (plus of course salaries of various levels of care givers, administrators and other employees) stack up relative to each other and the overall costs of medical care in the country. Someone must. I recall Steven Brill's articles of a couple of years ago that showed how hospital bills bore little or not relation to their costs and varied wildly for the same procedure even in the same city. Plus there was research by Sanjay Gupta that showed how the same problem was treated differently by different doctors whatever the cost or the efficacy. There are enormous inefficiencies built into our medical system although few practitioners acknowledge it. Or if they do, it always some other guy who is responsible for it. And for the most part, it probably is some other guy who is responsible for it, or at least for most of it. The system itself is so large and gangly that of course no individual can get ahold of it and rationalize it. But until we can get costs and charges under control, we will always be dissatisfied.