Originally Posted by Rochard

It is. And the Republican party seems to think they are going to fix it. They will most likely fail, do a lot of damage, and look like shit in the process.

The ONLY way to fix this is to reign in the entire healthcare system. And that is a very tall order. The way the healthcare system is now is designed for "maximum profit". It's not going to work when the are charging us $20 for a single aspirin.

My mother passed out and was taken to the hospital in am ambulance. The bill for the ambulance ride itself was thousands of dollars. No offence to EMTs, but they aren't paid much, $15 an hour or so, and it's not like they used $1k of gas to go six miles. It took two people less than an hour to transport someone six miles. That should cost $100 at most. (Yeah, I know what you are going to say - the cost of the ambulance, insurance, the drugs they have to carry, blah blah blah... bullshit.)