http://www.healthinsurancepensacola.com/economics/is-health-insurance-responsible-for-the-ridiculous-cost-of-health-care-in-the-us/ A discussion blog about health insurance Fri, 10 Feb 2012 10:55:39 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.healthinsurancepensacola.com/economics/is-health-insurance-responsible-for-the-ridiculous-cost-of-health-care-in-the-us/comment-page-1/#comment-352 Nowayjose Fri, 09 Jan 2009 00:42:30 +0000 http://www.healthinsurancepensacola.com/economics/is-health-insurance-responsible-for-the-ridiculous-cost-of-health-care-in-the-us/#comment-352 There is no simple answer. Some causes:(1) the last 12 months of life, people consume (on an average) more resources than in all of their previous years, though there are plenty of exceptions. i have seen hundreds of thousands expended to add a week to the life of a dying patient.There is no longer an acceptance of death as a part of life. People say "do everything".(2). Lack of personal responsibility-people on Medicaid smoke and then demand expensive respiratory treatments, alcoholics and the morbidly obese go on disability for their self-inflicted disease. They don't pay their own bills.The costs get shifted to those who do. (3). The breakdown of the family, the building block of society: in past generations people took care of their frail or ill relatives. now they demand that the health care system do it . (4). new treatments and meds-horribly costly. BTW, Hillary or Barack won't be participating in what they plan for you. There is no simple answer. Some causes:(1) the last 12 months of life, people consume (on an average) more resources than in all of their previous years, though there are plenty of exceptions. i have seen hundreds of thousands expended to add a week to the life of a dying patient.There is no longer an acceptance of death as a part of life. People say “do everything”.(2). Lack of personal responsibility-people on Medicaid smoke and then demand expensive respiratory treatments, alcoholics and the morbidly obese go on disability for their self-inflicted disease. They don’t pay their own bills.The costs get shifted to those who do. (3). The breakdown of the family, the building block of society: in past generations people took care of their frail or ill relatives. now they demand that the health care system do it . (4). new treatments and meds-horribly costly. BTW, Hillary or Barack won’t be participating in what they plan for you.

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