Just popping in to mention that I'm not ignoring your post, I simply haven't had time the to devote to a proper response. It's coming...


>Not a bad effort. Thanks for posting it.
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>I started out writing a long response but instead I thought I'd point out that every year, expensive new treatment modalities come onto the market to treat diseases previously judged incurable. Rather than sympathy and pain pills, today a patient may receive expensive interventional options followed by years of expensive medication, possibly adding several million dollars to her cost of treatment compared to a decade ago.
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>Also there is the reality that about 50% of per-patient healthcare expenses occur after the age of 65- the Medicare range. So why would anybody blame government if public spending contributes 50% of total expenditure?
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>My point is that if you want reasons for ever-increasing healthcare cost, they aren't difficult to find without reverting to the "government" bogeyman. And why is it that people who rely on assumptions about government involvement in healthcare leading to increased cost are unable to cast their eyes anywhere else in the developed world to see that it is not a safe assumption?