Quote: Originally Posted by
Navy1960 
Quote: Originally Posted by
toomuchtime_
None of the health insurance "reforms" being proposed in Congress would lower health care costs. On the contrary, every one of them would raise health care costs and that increase in costs would be paid for with hirer taxes or larger deficits. When Obama tries to sell his health insurance proposals by saying they will lower health care costs or slow the rate of increase he is clearly lying.
toomuchtime, I think if issues such as Illegal Immigration healthcare costs are not addressed, and drug costs, along with several other factors. The result of all of this will be exactly what you have said, higher costs, lower quality care, and higher taxes. That is why I have said that its best that the individual states decide for themselves what is best for them. As whats best for Ca. is not whats best for Az.
Of course, there is nothing to prevent states from making changes in their health care systems now, but if federal money is involved, it should, imo, be aimed at achieving specific health outcomes. That means the states would not be able to decide what they would try to achieve with federal money but would have some discretion about how they would achieve it. This is, in fact, how the Medicaid and SCHIP programs work.