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The exorbitant cost of American health care IS a drag on the economy. When a multi-national corporation decides upon which plot to plant a factory, the cost/effectiveness of health care is a concern.



No doubt.

The Republican plans to minimize cost include thin regulations and exposing health insurance more to free market economics than it currently is. Free market economics rather than creating large bureaucracies where government is supposed to be wise enough to manipulate the entire system so they can sit in their offices and dictate how the market is "supposed" to work.

An example of thin regulations is the one that both McCain and Obama supported in the last election. Allowing importation of meds. Canada, India, paying such lower prices for drugs, that regulation will just force pharmaceutical companies to charge much less in the USA.

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And don't forget the stagnation of American employees trapped in an employer-based health care situation instead of embarking upon their entrepreneurial bent to do something better.



The center-piece of all the Republican plans I've seen is to remove the health care tax break for corporations and give it to individuals. This makes the people who actually use the system more aware of the costs instead of burying it down in government and book keepers for large corporations. More awareness of price, more exposure to competition.

And, if health insurance companies have to compete more for individuals rather than just rely on large accounts with corporations, the entrepreneurs are going to have more people competing for their dollars.

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Government can not do anything cheaper than private enterprise.



An entire philosophy behind the U.S. Constitution is to make government inefficient. That's why we've got 2 houses of Congress who's job is to run their mouths debating constantly. They didn't want government to be effective because they don't trust it.

Arguing with the precepts for the most successful document in the history of the world... It's just un-American.

Government does it only if free markets can't. And, no one's tried maniuplating the system to try to get the markets doing it more efficiently. That's the 1st thing to try.

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Laughable. Government appointees are somewhat more accountable than CEOs of the health insurance companies, whose top 10 salaries would provide health care for thousands:




Yeah, even Dubya complained about how much CEO's make. He just decided not to make it a political class warfare issue like Obama has. Private business isn't perfect, but the idea is that even with their flaws, they do it better than government. If I weren't so lazy, I'd go research an example for you to try to convince you.

Yeah I know, too long. Nobody will read it.