Originally Posted by Robbie

I agree...it's fucked up big time.

In my humble opinion...what is needed is for the govt. to STOP allowing the healthcare industry (not insurance companies, but the actual big corporations that own hospitals and also Big Pharma) to price gouge the American people.

Bernie Sanders is right on the money when he talks about how we pay many times more for the same exact prescription medication as other countries do.

And hospitals overcharging? Fuck yeah they do. $50 for Dixie cup full of water? $10 for a Tylenol?

Obamapologists tried to say that those high prices were caused by NOT having something like ObamaCare and was because of all the people who skipped out on their emergency room bill.
Well...the costs have went UP dramatically instead of coming down.

It's a total ripoff that is facilitated by the lobbyists money from the big hospital corporations and Big Pharma.

In my humble opinion we need "no payer" solution. Prices should be where we don't need health insurance for everything.

What we need is for prices to be what they should be. So that people can and will pay out of pocket to go to the doctor (like I did my whole life, my parents did their whole life, my grandparents...and all the way back to the beginning of doctors).

We should all be paying less than $50 a month for CATASTROPHIC insurance (in case you get in a wreck or have a heart attack, etc.), instead of using insurance for every little doctor visit and visit to the pharmacy.

THAT is what should be happening.

Just turning on the Federal Govt. money spigot (when we are already 20 Trillion in debt) isn't going to solve anything.

The problem that needs to be solved is corruption and price gouging.