Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam

Conservatively, costs to the overall economy would be $200 - $300 billion less a year. Right now medical inflation has exceeded the CPI "From 1990 to 2011 medical inflation has exceeded the CPI by an average of 3.3% annually" http://www.nrlc.org/uploads/medethic...utpacesCPI.pdf

This is how private healthcare has profited off the American public.



Little out of date but it does illustrate the point -- we are getting screwed over. You can argue the cost of care all you want ... This is about some profit cost cutting and the restriction of the increases of costs.

Healthcare is NOT a partisan issue it is a public interest issue.