Bitter Pill: The Exorbitant Prices of Health Care

TIME ^ | March 2013 | Steven Brill

[Lorianne]

Steven Brill talks to TIME about his cover story on the outrageous pricing and egregious profits that are destroying our health care.

Vidio 3:88

[Lorianne]

Video promoting new article in Time Magazine on the outrageously high cost of health care and why Obamacare does nothing to reduce costs, in fact it makes the situation worse.

[familyop]

“Doc, we need you to come over right away.”
“Alright. You got the $25 and a bottle of whiskey?”
“Yup.”
“I’ll be right there.”

[ClearCase_guy]

"If there's a blue pill and a red pill, and the blue pill is half the price of the red pill and works just as well, why not pay half price for the thing that's going to make you well?" -- Barack Obama

Note:
Blue states are Democrat states
Red states are Republican states.
Obama suggests that Blue is the better choice.

In the movie "The Matrix", people are offered the choice of two pills:
The Blue pill puts them into a fantasy world inside a computer where they will be slaves.
The Red pill puts people into reality where they can control their own destiny.
Obama suggests that Blue is the better choice.

ObamaCare was supposed to lower costs, but instead it has increased costs. This is only worth noticing if you prefer reality to fantasy.

[familyop]

Agreed, though, that the medical racket is quite a banquet. Big bucks (from debt) in this funny economy for most folks involved in it or selling through it. We can’t afford it. And markets continuing to shrink to fit shrinking pools of upscale clients is a failed model. After the default process takes out the trash, back to manufacturing and big volume.