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lib2DaBone (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 09:02 PM Original message |
How can health care costs rise 5 times the rate of inflation....? |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 09:03 PM Response to Original message |
1. they never address WHY it costs so much |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 09:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. True.... |
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kenny blankenship (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
2. They charge whatever the market will bear |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 03:13 AM Response to Reply #2 |
12. Indeed. Remember those old cartoons showing a man crawling toward a mirage in a desert? |
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kestrel91316 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
3. Because a free market and competition makes for lower costs and hence |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 09:49 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Yup. Where health care is concerned only public health care is efficient. Private not so much. |
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Psephos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
6. Oil has risen 50 times the rate of inflation in just the past two years. |
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JoeyT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 02:52 AM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Yeah, but there are concrete reasons for those prices rising. |
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KT2000 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
7. Every time I refill a prescriptions |
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safeinOhio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Apr-09-11 11:44 PM Response to Original message |
8. Expensive lobbyist are |
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SheilaT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 02:01 AM Response to Original message |
9. Part of it is that medical technology |
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Jmaxfie1 (707 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Apr-10-11 02:06 AM Response to Reply #9 |
10. My sister says a very similiar thing. |
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