[jfoutz]

two things struck me as a little odd.

One, the private costs are off the chart with regard to our peers, but the government spending is just "more than average". but more than average is presented as being just as bad as the outlier we are in the first case.

Two, medicare is responsible for the most expensive health years of a person's life. The time when our bodies just start to fall apart and require a lot of specialized care. Medicare's cost controls seem really good when their youngest clients are 65. Comparing their costs to a private company, who insures working adults, seems like a shallow analysis.

[BurningFrog]

I think the argument is that US government financed health care that only pays for maybe half the population is already more expensive then paying for 100% of the population in other countries.

So it's a stretch to imagine that having the US government take on many more patients would lower costs.

[EdwardDiego]

> So it's a stretch to imagine that having the US government take on many more patients would lower costs.

Sure, given your current system, it won't. So change your current system.