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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everybody is getting their panties in a twist about health insurance costs, but what we actually need is a national discussion about health care costs. Why is it so expensive to have any health care procedure done here, especially when compared to the rest of the world? We can moan about health insurance, but until health care costs are brought under control, nothing will change. Bring down health care costs, and people will not be going bankrupt. Insurance should be for "major stuff" like cancer treatment, surgery, etc. We should not be using it for checkups, flu shots, etc. However, we can't pay for these things out of pocket right now because they are priced too high. [/quote]

+ a million.

Obamacare ignored this basic fact, creating an even less affordable healthcare system.[/quote]

+1. Yes! And no one ever wants to discuss this. Until this is addressed, all of these plans are just cost-shifting with different winners and losers. [/quote]

+1!!!!!   Unfortunately, our political system has degenerated to a point where this is not possible.

Pro tip -- lobbyists love this partisan circus which allows them to do their business in the dark[/quote]

[b]Yet another +1 to the need to actual control healthcare costs[/b]

I take a medicine that has a $100 monthly co-pay, which is a huge amount of money until you see the list price is $900 a month (over 10k a year!). I assume the insurance company gets some of that knocked off but it’s still probably many hundreds of dollars a month. For one drug - crazy.[/quote]

This is the root issue. Too much money going into big pharm, insurance, and lobbyist pockets. And the Rs and most of the Ds are fine with that.

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Obamacare passed because Dems (not R) made an obscene pact with pharma and insurers and hospitals. They would support ACA and get filthy rich in exchange.

The "affordable" thingy was a joke from day 1.[/quote]

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