The person insured pays for healthcare always -- either directly, in reduced wages from his employer or the higher cost of goods -- the government pays for the uninsured at the Medicaid rate I think then there is Medicare and Medicaid.

So, the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (AKA: Obamacare) depends on the uninsured getting insurance --- BWAAAAA! Why should the government (i.e.; the taxpayer) pay their way? There is Medicaid if they are too poor to pay. Apart from that, it is less socialistic than a single payer system. (Protecting health insurers and providers revenues).

You have to pay for healthcare in a civilized society the alternative is to have people dying in the streets. I don't think the Chinese healthcare model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_...-care_in_China is for us ...

In any event, the individual ends up paying. And if you think that the government can just print money -- that amounts to a devaluation of your assets. Inflation sounds so more palatable but in truth inflation is the cruelest hidden tax.

I think that most noticeable price increases are connected to higher oil costs -- yet we subsidize the oil industry's costs -- are we shielding our cost or insuring the profits of big oil? Everything else is almost flat or deflated (e.g.; real estate values).

When you are getting fucked it's nice to know who is fucking you.