I am a small-business owner, and I read the article on rising health care costs facing the state (Page A1, March 4). I am amazed that Massachusetts has a cap of 3.6 percent on increases in health care costs. Over the past two years, my health care premium alone went up 76 percent. I would be thrilled with a 3.6 percent hike, and was wondering where it went.
Peter G. Hill
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The Bitter Pill: first read this, then comment: http://healthland.time.com/2013/02/20/bitter-pill-why-medical-bills-are-killing-us/
oh my god... that article is un... well, no, it IS believable and that's what's scary. The healthcare system in this country has been broken for quite some time. Just about everybody knows what's wrong with it, but there is absolutely NO desire on anyone to truly fix it. Even the attempt by Mass and nationally by the Dems to fix the shamefulness of the system so that regular folks don't end up destitute because they become ill just doesn't address what this article shows so well: the system is rigged and allows to make a handful of people and institutions enormously rich for providing services that elsewhere in the world are billed at a fraction of the cost charged here. I do not understand why Americans are so passive about this, are not outraged... it's as is Americans were somehow convinced that they deserve the worst possible healthcare system in the world. They don't. THey do deserve something a lot better. I doubt they'll ever get the type of quality and justified price-quality ratio that most other nations in the world get, but they should get so much better than they do now...
Forward, Comrade, Forward.
Obama knows best.
He also knows that you aren't paying your fair share. There are illegals, DNC hacks, and union thugs who aren't getting enough of your money.
He will be working hard to make sure that 4 years from now, you look longingly back when your premiums only went up 76%!