Politics and Money

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Our current health care system is dysfunctional. The primary reason for this dysfunction is the funding mechanism. When you have specific groups required to provide substantially larger amounts to fund health care you end up with our disaster. Medicaid is the perfect example. Medicaid reimbursements in many states are being cut "to the bone" by fiscally strapped state budgets; there really isn't any reasonable alternative. The private sector insured are seeing their premiums dramatically increase as providers attempt to fill the revenue gap.....and presto, private insured are bailing on the system in droves. The public sector, no problem there, they have the ever available taxpayer to fleece and maintain their relatively low contribution rate.

Until we come up with a consistent and equitable method of funding health care in the USA we will watch the system implode. Anyone who believes the system can survive and watch the inflation rate in health care sit in the 8-10% range slept through math class.

Bottom line: We need an equitable funding mechanism and we need a method of containing cost, today we have neither.