What can we do in the U.S. to help lower the high cost of healthcare?

Answer 1

- Malpractice torte reform

- Invest in tax-sponsored "free clinics" in large cities and areas where minority, uninsured use the ER for general care (preventative medicine of that type is MUCH LESS costly than ER care)

Answer 2

You get what you pay for. Health care is not raisng as much as you think. The reason is that the cost of everything else isn't rising as much as it should. The cost of other industry is decreasing due to outsourcing. Health care are very limited on how much it can outsource. Do to cost of administration and regulation due to government influence and the rise of cost of doing business, health care has increased. On the other hand do to pressure from outsourcing and corporate greed, or salary is not rising with everything else. Much is said about health care in other country. Yes there preventive is cheap, but if you are really sick, the quality is bad. Think of all the foreigners coming to California for medical treatment. When Clinton forced Healthcare to cut cost, Death rates caused by hospital sky rocket. Most means of reducing health care means reducing quality.

Answer 3

First you would have to look at the true sources of the problems. Some of them are:
People want to be paid for their time and effort. There is a LOT of time and effort involved in becoming a doctor/nurse etc. After they become one, they want to be compensated for their time using their knowledge and abilities. Plus, people think that any problem can be fixed. If the problem isn't fixed, i.e. the patient dies, someone wants to be compensated for that loss and the attorneys are very eager to jump on in and start throwing law suits around. They want to be paid for their time and effort as well--usually 30%. So, groups of people got together and formed insurance companies to pay out settlements in these law suits. Well, again they want to be compensated for writing out the checks--guess they get writer's cramp or something--and they charge the doctors LOTS of money for things like malpractice insurance. Plus, the insurance companies have their own attorneys who try and fight the suits. Yep, you guessed it, they too want to be compensated for putting their time and energy against the time and energy of the patients' families' attorneys.

Now, maybe, somewhere there are medical personnel who truly simply want to help. In fact, I am sure the majority are like that, but they're caught in a system that doesn't allow them to do simply that. The system wants to put blame on someone if anything bad happens. And placing blame is apparently very very expensive.

Answer 4

pay more taxes