Healthcare

[krypton81]

Healthcare is a tough issue with many dimensions. I've been thinking about this issue a lot. I want to put a few ideas out for discussion.

First, healthcare cost have been increasing at a truly impressive rate for decades. Why is this?

Here are 3 plausible causes:

Demand for new more costly services
Rising incidence of chronic illness
Aging population

Comments

[firstofive]

Watching the speech with you last night and then the commentary following on both liberal and conservative tv channels, I couldn't help but notice that my two primary reactions were echoed in the analysis:
"This guy gives a great speech-he's identified areas all of us want improved in health care"
"I don't believe he's really told us how he's going to pay for it or where cost savings would really come from"

I think you do spend a significant amount of your time (which is a form of money) working to improve your/our health in the form of exercise, cooking healthy food and identifying important nutritional supplements. Maybe if more people did this health costs would lower somewhat...