Originally Posted by Mutt

Blaming the cost of healthcare on Obama or any other president who may come along is unfair, if Obama had his way it would have been a single payer system and you'd have the Canadian system, for good and for bad. As long as you have the healthcare insurance companies as middle men and you allow the pharmaceutical companies to charge what they want you're going to have extremely high health costs compared to other countries.

Get rid of the for profit middle men, they are completely unnecessary, they are parasites, and put price controls on the drug companies. The price for the same medications Americans pay through the nose for are a fraction of the cost around the world - the American middle class is in effect subsidizing the rest of the world and that's not fair. The vast majority of research that produces these new drugs are also funded in the United States.

The drug companies are laughing their way to the bank - the more people who have health insurance means more people visiting doctors and doctors have become prescription writing zombies - you'll now have armies of these 20 somethings now able to go for regular doctor visits every time they have the sniffles, then they'll tell the doctor they have been feeling sad - doctor immediately writes out an expensive prescription for Paxil or whatever.