The cost of U.S. health care is now about $4.5 trillion/year, or over 17% of gross domestic product, with the average man, woman or child spending more than $12,000 each year. This is three to four times what health care costs in other developed nations such as South Korea, New Zealand or Japan. The U.S. […]
important but what s more important are 1,000 days into office. i think having the wiggle room is important but having the victories for the republican congress is incredibly important. they need something to show in 2018, especially with health care and tax reform. through and there s not really a sense health care is going to get across the finish line this week? [laughter] the most interesting is sean spicer today backing away a little bit from that aggressive projections were going to have a bill. he said if we can find the votes, it would be great. i think they are downsizing expectations which is pretty smart. this would be a stupid time for a stupid stunt. the 100 days is arbitrary. trump made a decision late in his campaign when neither he nor anybody else really thought he was going to win. they threw up a bunch of 100 a promises. as he said in an interview,
many of them are already in the bill that just passed. what s really depressing is that health care is the biggest problem facing the budget. we just went through a painful process to reform health care and we didn t get nearly enough in terms of medium or long-term cost savings. yes, it will reduce the deficit very slightly over ten years, but compared to the overall size of the problems it contributes? it s a drop in the bucket. nobody wants to have to go back and do this again. unfortunately, we do. i think we are going to have to look at some other pieces of this. more of what s in the bill in terms of controlling costs, more in terms of the excise tax making this medicare commission stronger and being able to have a greater say in how to generate savings. savings in medicare overall. medicare is still unsustainable. i also do think we strongly have to look at the side of consumers, where there is a problem where in a sense we have, in the country we have a sense health care is fre
health care is the biggest problem facing the budget. we just went through a painful process to reform health care and we didn t get nearly enough in terms of medium or long-term cost savings. yes, it will reduce the deficit very slightly over ten years, but compared to the overall size of the problems it contributes? it s a drop in the bucket. nobody wants to have to go back and do this again. unfortunately, we do. i think we are going to have to look at other pieces of this. more of what s in the bill in terms of controlling costs, more in terms of the excise tax making this medicare commission stronger and being able to have greater say how to generate savings. savings and medicare overall. medicare is unsustainable. i also do think we strongly have to look at the side of consumers, where there is a problem where in a sense we have, in the country we have a sense health care is free. when you go to the doctor, you don t pay much money and you don t know how much it costs. the bottom