1....unless you thought inflation was going to be zero all around, where medical cost is where it has been highest for a long time...of course some went up...Like I said, this was not signed to be a magic wand waved and its all good bill..its spaced out and will take time ...( I also since your new want you to know that I did not like how this bill in the form it was passed in..but do support some of the ideas behind it...)
2. single payer would be the option I most support..with the option to buy extra insurance if you wish to cover more expensive, but possibly not needed issues. As I stated before, the American people do not in large support the idea..that if your poor and get sick..to bad only the wealthy should get care...so drop dead....Also, unlike some republican ideas...health care costs for people without insurance need to be paid by someone...that someone is...taxpayers and or added cost to our premiums. Almost anyone in medicine knows that its far more cost efficient to treat just about anything early...and preventative care can save huge amounts...Our current system today says dont get check ups, and wait till you have to be wheeled into a ER...before we help you get treatment...where the cost of early treatment could have been less then the cost of the Ambulance that took you...this could help lower cost quite a bit..though the right will cry about longer waits for things sometimes...because the right for the rich to get get fast help, is stronger then the right of the poor to get any....also ignores supply and demand...if demand is higher..increase the supply?
there is the fairness issue of our system...before the bill passed...a child born with a illness that could effect there whole life...could be denied ever getting coverage or at best be forced to pay huge sums to get any..A employee who lost there job due to the poor management of the company or some reason beyond there control....also just lost there health care .....The company in the first place had to pay huge sums of money to get good workers...by offering to pay large parts of the cost of health care ( keeping the real cost out of the view of workers...and off the so called free market...as your going to get your insurance...threw who ever your work picks..and what ever plans they offer you...my "free market" as 2 health care options from the same place...pick from 2 deductibles...thats not a free market....
I worked 2 jobs...both would have loved to have me work all the time...but where limted to keep me at less then a average of 32 hours or less...due to the fact if I did more...they would have to pay my health care...I know people who worked 3...still no health care..for same reason....
When our system has us pay more per capita then any other nation...to cover far less of our people...I find it hard to believe some call this the greatest system on earth...as a extra note...my girlfriend got lucky, her job position was eliminated...and she has a very serious health issue ...lucky for her..when her job was eliminated...they decided to extend be a extra 3 months her health care...during that time she got a new treatment that has for the last few years greatly improved her life..though its still a issue she deals with daily and cost still mount...with her new job she got ....her health care would not have covered it....I don't belive peoples health and lives should depend one where they are employed at the time.
