WorthyNewsBot Posted December 5, 2016 Group: Bots Followers: 3 Topic Count: 39,879 Topics Per Day: 6.47 Content Count: 44,258 Content Per Day: 7.18 Reputation: 984 Days Won: 2 Joined: 06/06/2007 Status: Offline Share Posted December 5, 2016 (Worthy News) - The nation's health care tab grew at the fastest rate in eight years in 2015, driven by the coverage expansion in President Barack Obama's law and by costly prescription drugs, the government said Friday. The growth of 5.8 percent in 2015 boosted total health care spending to $3.2 trillion. That's an average of $9,990 per person, although the vast share of that money is spent caring for the sickest patients. Health spending grew about 2 percentage points faster than the overall economy in 2015, said the report from nonpartisan economic experts at the Department of Health and Human Services. That's a problem because it makes it harder for government programs, employers, and individuals to afford the level of health care that Americans are used to having. [ Source ] View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted December 5, 2016 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 596 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,047 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,790 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted December 5, 2016 When are we going to start working on lowering the cost of Healthcare instead of fighting over who has to pay for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hmbld Posted December 5, 2016 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 4 Topic Count: 48 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 2,491 Content Per Day: 0.55 Reputation: 1,457 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/23/2011 Status: Offline Birthday: 02/02/1971 Share Posted December 5, 2016 34 minutes ago, other one said: When are we going to start working on lowering the cost of Healthcare instead of fighting over who has to pay for it. Because we are too busy making jobs by building extravagant new hospitals, which then employ a large percentage of the community. The large hospitals here do multi-million dollar expansions, then new hospitals are built. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayin jade Posted December 5, 2016 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 44 Topic Count: 6,178 Topics Per Day: 0.88 Content Count: 43,795 Content Per Day: 6.22 Reputation: 11,242 Days Won: 58 Joined: 01/03/2005 Status: Offline Share Posted December 5, 2016 Obviously this cant be true. Obamacare is affordable health care and costs would go down. SARCASM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Running Gator Posted December 5, 2016 Group: Royal Member * Followers: 8 Topic Count: 91 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 10,596 Content Per Day: 3.70 Reputation: 2,743 Days Won: 25 Joined: 06/16/2016 Status: Offline Share Posted December 5, 2016 I am not sure there is a way to "fix" the cost issues. Healthcare is viewed as a commodity and as such it follows the laws of supply and demand. Demand is far outpacing supply thus the prices will rise, you cannot stop this without increasing the supply, which is not being done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
missmuffet Posted December 5, 2016 Group: Royal Member Followers: 34 Topic Count: 1,990 Topics Per Day: 0.48 Content Count: 48,688 Content Per Day: 11.83 Reputation: 30,343 Days Won: 226 Joined: 01/11/2013 Status: Offline Share Posted December 5, 2016 4 hours ago, hmbld said: Because we are too busy making jobs by building extravagant new hospitals, which then employ a large percentage of the community. The large hospitals here do multi-million dollar expansions, then new hospitals are built. That is true. But then costs go up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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