ThumperDoodle
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to be an answer to the question, "What is the Republican answer to health reform?" How do they plan cutting the costs per person in the U.S. from $7,429 to something more manageable? How do they plan to make sure health care costs don't increase 100% in ten years? What are they going to prevent health care costs to be more than 17% of the GDP this year? How are they going to address these?
* Health spending grew 6.1% in 2007, the smallest increase since 1998, extending a five-year decelerating trend. Nevertheless, health spending continues to outpace inflation and is projected to reach $2.5 trillion this year.
* Projections indicate that the recession will more than offset the recent moderation in health spending. Health care's share of the GDP is expected to rise rapidly, to 17.6% of GDP this year.
* Nationally, per-person costs for health care increased 81% between 1997 and 2007.
* While out-of-pocket costs for consumers continue to rise, over the past 40 years they have declined as a share of overall health spending and are now flat at about 14%.
kadiss.......I don't watch msnbc. I watch real news stations and no, it sure as hell isn't faux snooze
zaza, they didn't address these issues
Quid. Lower taxes? That's their plan? Have any of the taxcuts of the past stopped the rising costs of health care? Have they made sure that people have insurance?
....will ask whether or not you feel that your doctor should determine your course of treatment. You can't honestly believe that anything that the government offers you is first 'free' and secondly 'efficient'.
This isn't what is being proposed. I'd still have my doctors as I do now and will get the treatment my doctor and I decide on. It is simply lies that this won't happen.
All I know is that we CANNOT continue with the costs of health care. It costs Americans (only those who can afford it) almost DOUBLE what it costs per person in other countries. And prices aren't going down.
Again, all I got from some of you wasn't any plan at all, but telling me my points weren't worth talking about. What kind of answer is that? I know, the same kind of answer I've been getting all along from Repubs.
* Health spending grew 6.1% in 2007, the smallest increase since 1998, extending a five-year decelerating trend. Nevertheless, health spending continues to outpace inflation and is projected to reach $2.5 trillion this year.
* Projections indicate that the recession will more than offset the recent moderation in health spending. Health care's share of the GDP is expected to rise rapidly, to 17.6% of GDP this year.
* Nationally, per-person costs for health care increased 81% between 1997 and 2007.
* While out-of-pocket costs for consumers continue to rise, over the past 40 years they have declined as a share of overall health spending and are now flat at about 14%.
kadiss.......I don't watch msnbc. I watch real news stations and no, it sure as hell isn't faux snooze
zaza, they didn't address these issues
Quid. Lower taxes? That's their plan? Have any of the taxcuts of the past stopped the rising costs of health care? Have they made sure that people have insurance?
....will ask whether or not you feel that your doctor should determine your course of treatment. You can't honestly believe that anything that the government offers you is first 'free' and secondly 'efficient'.
This isn't what is being proposed. I'd still have my doctors as I do now and will get the treatment my doctor and I decide on. It is simply lies that this won't happen.
All I know is that we CANNOT continue with the costs of health care. It costs Americans (only those who can afford it) almost DOUBLE what it costs per person in other countries. And prices aren't going down.
Again, all I got from some of you wasn't any plan at all, but telling me my points weren't worth talking about. What kind of answer is that? I know, the same kind of answer I've been getting all along from Repubs.