Obama Taking Jobs Plan On The Road, Speaks In Richmond, Virginia

Obama’s stance on Medicare is BS. Healthcare costs are out of control because there are no cost containmen­t measures whatever in the industry. There are none in the prescripti­on drug programs. He’s approachin­g the horse from the @$$-end instead of the head where you can control the animal.

Healthcare in the US is a for-profit industry. As such, their goal is maximizing profit while reducing costs to themselves­. If their costs rise, they simply raise prices/rat­es to cover them.

Unless and until the industry is either slapped with rigid price controls or abolished through a government run and controlled single payer system (think Great Britain's NHS, Canada's universal health care) nothing will change and Medicare costs and healthcare costs in general will eat up more and more of the country’s resources.

Obama’s demanding the users of Medicare pay for the sins and profits of the health care industry bandits.

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