Individual’s Money Spent on Health Vs Government Spending on Health

Leftists in this country are worried that Americans spend too much money for their health. They do not appear to similarly care much about our outlay on food, housing, automobiles or clothes, as they do on health.

But what Americans spend on different items always varies. We spend more on health because our health providers offer better services than do those in countries where such expenses are less. And we have more and better doctors and testing, as well as health facilities.

This does not indicate waste, as the left-leaning Obama administration wants us to believe. The only waste is in over-testing and that can be sharply reduced with tort reform, which the left will not touch for its own political reasons.

This should have nothing to do with anyone not able to get medical care. The poor can be given assistance, the way food stamps and other forms of help are provided.

What ought to be considered is that government health spending will control one sixth of our entire economy, while taking individual choice away.