Health Care/Insurance Debate

Posted by: Curt | Under: General Fitness | (0) Comments

This is about a hour long, but is well worth watching if you want to understand why our current system and all of the proposed health care bills in congress will fail. Unfortunately, it will probably take that sort of failure to bring about real reform in the health care industry. Whether we have an economy left afterward is the big question. From the CATO Institute…

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David Goldhill is a Democrat and a business executive who paid little attention to the economics of health care before his father’s life was cut short by a hospital-acquired infection. That loss drove him to uncover the truth about American health care, which he reveals in an article that has been acclaimed as a “stemwinder” and “a fascinating read.” Goldhill explains why “it looks like this generation of ‘comprehensive’ reform will not address the underlying issues, any more than previous efforts did. Instead it will put yet more patches on the walls of an edifice that is fundamentally unsound—and then build that edifice higher.”