Why are US health care costs so high and how can they be reduced?

Are pharmeceutical company to blame? How about ER visit by the uninsured, raising the costs of their services to everone else? Do insurance companies need to cap fees for medical services provided?

Glad everyone actually agrees on something: the very high cost of health care.

Why are most of the people who bash attorneys for making such a large amount of money on medical malpractice suits usually the same individuals that actually trip while running to file a medical malpractice suit? Just like any other employment sector (especially politics) the medical field has good employees along with a FEW that don’t belong there.

A medical entity I can use as an example is the Veterans Affairs medical centers. For decades working at a VA was “never having to say you’re sorry” or worrying about being sued. This reality did not attract the better of the employees in this particular segment of the employment industry of medicine.

The VA has a few doctors employed like Dr. Jose Veizaga-Mendez that is negligently killing patients at the Marion VA after he was barred from practicing medicine in Massachusetts.

http://www.vawatchdog.org/07/nf07/nfSEP07/nf092107-3.htm

The VA has the ability to become the largest innovative medical community that all of society and INSURANCE companies would beg to do business with (enlistment numbers also would be greatly increased). They are leaders in research of things like prostate cancer, prosthetics and suicidal and mental ailments. Society says they support our troops but after their military service our troops become veterans, and no one seems to realize that our new veteran’s job has just begun. Just goggle most medications and physical ailments and you will find many hundreds of thousands of research projects and study groups that have been done involving our veterans since World War I.

Here is another reason for the high cost of medical care but first I must inform EVERY TAX PAYING individual in the United States that they are presently SUPPORTING THE TERRORISTS (who are providing 93% of the heroin world-wide) when their tax dollars are used to treat and support drug addicts. Their children are handicapped upon conception and are made to live a life with mental OR physical handicaps. How can any part of society rationally justify supporting these sad lives (which no God could condone the existence of?). When a very good hospital must close a maternity ward because they find it very disturbing and too expensive to be considered a “miracle worker” which has to save the life’s of very premature drug addicted newborns. It is very sad that a physician would have to pay such a large amount of medical malpractice insurance to do what most of them love to do best; save lives as a doctor, not as a miracle worker. What if the job you loved was turned into helping prolong misery and pain while you where constanlty treatened with a law suit if you could not perform a miracle?

Milton Friedman – Curing American Health Care

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