Health Care Reform Is a Farce

Unfortunately, the health care reform issue is a total shambles. Only politicians could muck things up so totally. I posted some suggestions months ago, but I'm sure very few read them and nobody acted on them.

Political payoffs prevent the President and Congress from doing the obvious and logical thing, that is: Determine what portion of each health care dollar goes to each element of the process: patient insurance, hospital liability insurance, doctors malpractice insurance, insurance billing and administrative costs, hospital buildings and maintenance, cost of medication, doctors office rent, and (I almost forgot) doctors pay, and nurses pay.

Such a study would reveal the obvious -- that insurance companies and pharmaceutical companies take the lion’s share of the dollar in exhorbitant premiums and obscene profits. To change that, government must enact controls to minimize those cost drivers. Elected officials will never do this, because their elections were bought and paid for by those very companies. Democrats won't give up the financial support and Republicans will scream that the changes stifle free enterprise…