Only time will tell about any net savings from the health "insurance" reform... One thing that never quite got talked about is that the uninsured do go to hospit6als when they are very sick or are badly injured and the hospital ends up eating the cost of these folks care which gets passed on to everyone else in the form of cost... Now if we insure 35,000,000 people then the hospitals won't have to absorb those losses and should be able to, at the very least, keep cost increases closer to inflation rates...

But that is in theory...

But the second aspect is that these same 35,000,000 people will get care before stuff gets so out of hand that the care becomes very expensive... This, in theory, should help control overall cost of health care...

We'll just have to see...

One thing is for sure and that is that the 17% of GNP that we are spoending on health care alone will cripple our economy...

I was fir a single payer system... I think it has the greatest chance of holding down future costs but that politically wasn't possible...

I think we have moved forward but I aslo think that we have not had the courage to really put a good fix in and that we will have to revisit this problem again very soon... Like within the next 7 to 10 years... Maybe then the politic will be better and we will put together a system that works...

B~