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“The most notable exception is our most expensive medical problem: heart disease. Although it afflicted almost exactly the same share of the population in 2000 as it did in 1987, the cost of treating heart disease has nearly doubled. Why? Because new drugs and techniques such as cardiac catheterization and angioplasty were developed and perfected during this period. So while spending per patient is going up, Thorpe\u2019s study noted, death rates associated with heart disease are going down. We are, in other words, getting more for our money.<\/line>“I\u2019m not sure why we feel so bad about spending more to improve and extend our lives, while we take increased transportation costs in stride. One reason may be that we have more control over our cars and their upkeep, while our health care is managed by third parties. If our employers controlled our vehicles, decided what we could drive and how far we could drive them, we – and they – might be more uneasy about the economic trends in transportation.”<\/line> <\/line>Can I jump in here and say something? Yes, I can, because it\u2019s my show. I can explain this for you. I can answer this question, “Why are people so much more concerned over how much they\u2019re spending on health care than they\u2019re spending on cars?” It\u2019s because you can go back to the formation of Medicare and Medicaid. When the government decided, I tell you what, if the government had taken over providing everybody a car then everybody would be upset about it because nobody would get what they want. You never get what you want when somebody else is paying for it because you\u2019re never going to be able to spend as much as you would like. And so there is a sense of entitlement over 40 years, you have to go back to the sixties really to find the roots of this. So for 40 years there\u2019s been a sense of entitlement that has swept the nation when it comes to health care. People don\u2019t think they should have to pay for health care at all. Health care is a right. Automobiles are not a right yet. Hotel rooms are not a right yet. <\/line> <\/line>Now, leave it to the Democrats and in another 40 years who knows what we\u2019ll end up with as a right. But people think it\u2019s a right to have no health problems or, if you do have a health problem, have somebody else pay for it so you\u2019re well again. It\u2019s not your responsibility to take care of yourself; it\u2019s somebody else\u2019s responsibility to make you well when you screw up and make yourself sick. And because we have such great medical care in this country, you can go to the doctor for virtually anything. But when we talk about health care costs, how much are we spending on Viagra? When you start adding all these things up that are new that improve the quality of life that didn\u2019t exist years and years ago, and then you put those new inventions or creations in the health care field, and you couple that with people\u2019s entitlement, it\u2019s no wonder that spending has gone up. And when people are not spending the money themselves of course they\u2019re not going to have any notion of the cost or of the value. People know how much they\u2019re spending on cars because they gotta pay the check and they gotta write the check every month or whatever. <\/line><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the same way with taxes. People do not know how much they are paying in taxes because they don\u2019t pay taxes, taxes are withheld. You never see the amount of money you pay in taxes and if you did, if you had to write the check you\u2019d be just as outraged as you are over what your health care costs are. That\u2019s the answer to this. And the thing that really is bad about this, one thing this guy is right about, this Weintraub guy, is that this is the finest health care system in the world. It has done more for more people in this country and the rest of the world than any health care system produced in the world, precisely because of our way of life and our economic system here, capitalism. And yet, you\u2019ve got a Democratic Party out there campaigning on the notion that everybody is going to hell in a hand basket. That everybody is getting sick, that nobody has access to health care and everybody is getting screwed by somebody when it comes to health care. You\u2019re getting screwed by your employer, you\u2019re getting screwed by the doctor, you\u2019re getting screwed by the hospital, you\u2019re getting screwed by the drug company, you\u2019re getting screwed by everybody. <\/line>Meanwhile, you\u2019re living your life longer, everybody in your family is probably healthier, you\u2019re diagnosing conditions much earlier than you used to so you can get \u2019em treated, and still, because you\u2019ve got a whole political party out there basing its viability on the fact nobody is getting any health care, people believe it. And they don\u2019t have any control over it, and so they feel imprisoned by it, and they\u2019re not getting what they want because they can\u2019t. And it\u2019s gotten to the point now where if you go to a doctor and pay yourself, that doctor is disqualified from treating Medicare patients in some cases. It\u2019s ridiculous. That\u2019s why all this is happening. He\u2019s absolutely right. The health care advances in this country ought to stun and amaze everybody, make us appreciative and grateful for what all has been done, but no, we gotta go to Canada to get drugs because it\u2019s too expensive. We\u2019re being gouged here, we\u2019re being be gouged there, HMOs they hate us and we hate them and all these other aspects of the health care industry are screwing everybody. Why, you would think that hospitals are shutting down, and if you walk in with some disease they\u2019re kicking you out and waiting until you die in the gutter so they can send a casket out and bury you in a cemetery you never heard of. I mean, that\u2019s the reason for all this. Nobody stops to think of the quality of life in this country, and it does cost. And even though you think you\u2019re not paying for it, you are. That\u2019s when you get right down to brass tacks, you are paying for it one way or the other, it\u2019s just you don\u2019t have control over it. It\u2019s all being taken from you, or it\u2019s all being given to you in the form of a benefit at work for which you\u2019re not actually being paid.<\/line> <\/line>So, you know, you may have a health care plan and, wow, this is great, let \u2019em pay you the money for the health care plan instead and you go get your own health care plan. That\u2019s what a medical savings account is. That\u2019s going to get costs down, but that will put you in control over it and that\u2019s a problem because that means more people are going to be responsible for themselves than are now. And that\u2019s another thing people don\u2019t want. You know, everybody else is supposed to be responsible for your health care, and then when something doesn\u2019t happen the way you want it you start complaining and whining and moaning about it.<\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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