The current state of healthcare in the US is a joke.

[BanginJimmy]

We are a third world nation when it comes to healthcare.

I'm paying $75 a month so some company can negotiate a 50 cent pill from $200 to $100, bill me for $30, and tell me how much money I saved.

It's fucking absurd.

/pissedoffrant.

I beg to differ on the third world health care. We have the best health care in the world, it just costs way too damn much. If you want to get into why it costs so much we can talk. If you just want cheaper coverage, you will have to go somewhere else. I will say that you pay a hefty price for that cheaper coverage though.

Tort reform would fix the majority of problems. Ambulance chasers and an ignorant public with an overzealous, undeserved self-entitlement mentality that tries "To get all the money they deserve" (to quote any number of commercials played during Jerry Springer or Maury) has driven the many prices beyond reason because of frivolous lawsuits..

This is just one small piece of it. You also have to add in doctor's malpractice insurance, the govt shorting docs with medicare/medicaid, and the list goes on. Addressing 1 piece of the puzzle wont make any noticable difference, the entire system needs an overhaul.

Before anyone says Obamacare, Obamacare will take everything that is wrong with the current system and make it worse. It will fix none of the reasons for the unsustainable rise in costs. Fraud will rise dramaticly. The cost to docs for taking govt patients will rise dramaticly. Insurance company red tape will rise dramaticly.