US Health Care costs killing jobs?

[Qdrop]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7446005/site/newsweek/

How We Drive Our Jobs Away

The most recent government action in American health care has made things much, much worse. The result: a fiscal black hole.

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interesting spin on what rising health care costs are doing to your economy.

[ASsman]

No one cares, about Health care.

[hellojello]

msnbc doesn't lie

[yeahwho]

After each solution they come up with they write.......but that wouldn't really solve the problem! We can have the most advanced technological medicine practiced on the planet, but that wouldn't really solve the problem.

The problem is cash. Taking care of ourselves is an investment. The US health-care system spends $209 billion more in administrative costs than does Canada's single-payer program. $209 billion! Just to wade through the mucky muck?

I just read this LATimes (http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-fi-wages11apr11,1,3713939.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true) story on Wages, it states more gloomy statistics;

Although the unemployment rate has dropped to a relatively low 5.2%, that figure doesn't count the hundreds of thousands of jobless people who've given up their searches and dropped out of the labor market at a greater rate than anytime since 1988. At the same time, the cost of health premiums has skyrocketed, eating into the pool of corporate cash set aside for raises. Although pay rose only about 2.4% last year, benefit costs jumped almost 7%.

But we must focus on Social Security.....

[Schmeltz]

Well, Canada's single-payer health care system wastes a lot of money too. I'm sure it's all in proportion. That's the problem - a top-heavy bureaucracy draining away money that could be used to make the system work better.

[yeahwho]

Well, Canada's single-payer health care system wastes a lot of money too. I'm sure it's all in proportion. That's the problem - a top-heavy bureaucracy draining away money that could be used to make the system work better.

Canada' s population is appx. 30 million, while the US population is appx. *294,000,000. If my math serves me correct thats' $791 more for each person...if Canada is spending $791 for each person. Of course this is just the paperwork, you haven't even had your fucking pulse checked yet.

but that wouldn't really solve the problem! ;)

* US population figures usually do not have the 10 million undocumented folks residing here, which maybe 4 are Canadian.