when the gubmint tells docotrs that it will pay them pennies on the dollar and they must treat patients at a LOSS, the doctors will raise their prices to those who CAN pay, ie: insurance companies
so gubmint CREATED the high costs of medicine
how about drugs? when gubmint FORCES pharmacueticals to sell to gubmint at 1/4 the COST, they will CHARGE more to the private sector to make up for that LOSS caused by gubmint
oops gubmint IS the CAUSE of high medical
like FORCING hospitals to treat illegals
Although some of the "fiscal cliff" taxes can be avoided through a deal made in Congress, new ObamaCare taxes are guaranteed to kick in on January 1, amounting to $268 billion tax hike. From Americans for Tax Reform:
The Obamacare Medical Device Tax – a $20 billion tax increase: Medical device manufacturers employ 409,000 people in 12,000 plants across the country. Obamacare imposes a new 2.3 percent excise tax on gross sales – even if the company does not earn a profit in a given year. In addition to killing small business jobs and impacting research and...
OOOPPS!
oops
you mean we could keep them out and avoid those diseases in the first place?
oops again