Quote Originally Posted by David88vert View Post
While I don't agree completely with these statements, I think this is an excellent presentation for the angle that you view the issue from.

I don't think that the government can/would lower healthcare costs even if they legalized currently illegal drugs; however, I also don't think that the private sector will lower them either. Cost will continue to rise as they always have. You do not see the government lowering your overall tax burden, only increasing it.
The weed thing is a small side note. And I cant find anything on San Bernardino. What I understand from what I have seen is that they're trying to apply it locally, using the same market model that causes the mess that we're in already. There are still people coming in, not paying, and not enough participants to find the ones that aren't.

If costs are going to continue to rise, then they will rise with or without socialized medicine, if that's the case we still have a responsibility to do something about ruining people's lives, medically and financially, over hospital bills that are unnecessarily, and prohibitively expensive. Especially since its us thats carrying the burden of that.

It's an increase on some people's tax burdens, but a decrease in out of pocket costs. Worst case scenario, my proposal is a wash for everyone involved. Same money goes in as it comes out.

If instead of paying $200 to BCBS, would you rather pay that same $200 to Uncle Sam if it meant that everyone around you had a better chance of not getting your family sick?