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Consensus elusive on how to reform health care

If government is concerned about health care forget provideing health care and look more at the extreme cost of health care, not the insurance, the cost to the consumer for hospitals, doctors, health care facilities. Grossly overcharging by these organizations are driving up cost, not the insurance companies. If health care cost come down so will the cost of insurance. Medical care and treatment is being abused by over medicating and excessive medical treatment that is more often harmful than helpful. Legilslators should look at how these for profit medical system and the shareholders and investors are profiteering off of health care. Health care should not be allowed to operate in the same manner as other investor related markets and deemed a controled market of profiting. The laws allowing health care to go to the world of finance and investor profiting has destroyed the ability of individuals being able to get affordable health care. The greed for profit driven investments the cost of health care rose to the point that the insurance companies could not keep up with the pace. The phrase of customary and reasonable charges gives this market an open book at what they can charge for services.

Maybe they should just make it illegal to get sick or injured.

The quickest and easiest thing the Legislature could do to improve the health care situation is to outlaw those 88-ounce mugs of Diet Coke and supersized Combo Meals. High health costs are largely our own fault. The diabetes rate, for example, is skyrocketing because of our poor eating habits and lack of exercise.

"The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the State. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills."

The gov't doesn't belong messing with health care, period.