In response to:

Feel Good Policy

4245 Wrote: Sep 14, 2009 1:24 PM
my son broke his back in an auto accident. Part of his surgery included four (4), very small titanium screws - priced at $1,100 EACH! This is insanity! You could go to most any supply shop and buy the same screw for under $5.00! Surely, sterilizing them CAN'T cost $1095.00!!!

With this kind of insanity, no wonder we have a "health care problem."

HOWEVER, government run health care is NOT the answer! The answer is to force the inflated price of medical services DOWN!

The message began to pop-up all over my Facebook page: “No one should die because they cannot afford health care or insurance and no one should go broke or bankrupt because they get sick.” Let us set aside the fact that no one in need of emergency life-saving medical care is denied because they do not have insurance and that there are state and federal programs already in existence that provide medical coverage for those of lesser means. I agree with the sentiment. I dare say I know of no one that doesn’t agree. There is simply no questioning the potential...

Related Tags: Health Care