Comments on: Is Now the Time to Increase Medicaid Spending? http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2008/12/11/is-now-the-time-to-increase-medicaid-spending/ Up To The Minute Analysis Of Ohio Public Policy Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:34:40 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.1 hourly 1 By: Marc Kilmer http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2008/12/11/is-now-the-time-to-increase-medicaid-spending/comment-page-1/#comment-1597 Marc Kilmer Fri, 12 Dec 2008 00:49:07 +0000 http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/?p=3546#comment-1597 We certainly don't have the have the worst health care results in the world. However, if you really think our system is so poor, I fail to see how moving toward more government control is the answer. The government already funds more than half of our nation's health care. The less-than-half of the health care that is privately funded is incredibly heavily regulated. I'll grant you that our system has a lot of problems. Since the government is by far the largest player in health care, it makes sense that it bears a lot of the blame for these problems, doesn't it? We certainly don’t have the have the worst health care results in the world. However, if you really think our system is so poor, I fail to see how moving toward more government control is the answer. The government already funds more than half of our nation’s health care. The less-than-half of the health care that is privately funded is incredibly heavily regulated. I’ll grant you that our system has a lot of problems. Since the government is by far the largest player in health care, it makes sense that it bears a lot of the blame for these problems, doesn’t it?

]]> By: anonamonster http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/2008/12/11/is-now-the-time-to-increase-medicaid-spending/comment-page-1/#comment-1595 anonamonster Thu, 11 Dec 2008 21:39:41 +0000 http://www.buckeyeinstitute.org/blog/?p=3546#comment-1595 We need way more than medicaid! How are we the most advanced country and the worst health care. Forget the financial industry, what we need is a freaking health care bail out. We need H.R. 676! Support H.R. 676 http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.00676: AND CALL YOUR CONGRESS WO/MAN! We need way more than medicaid! How are we the most advanced country and the worst health care. Forget the financial industry, what we need is a freaking health care bail out. We need H.R. 676! Support H.R. 676 http://www.thomas.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d110:h.r.00676:

AND CALL YOUR CONGRESS WO/MAN!

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