Howard Dean Fed up with Bernie supporting cyber bullies and negative campaign tactics against HRC w

[BlueCaliDem]

90. First and foremost, we need to drive the prices down. They're outrageous in this country.

If we don't drive those down to be fairer, we won't get anywhere.

The costs for care in this country is far too high, but only Hillary is talking about it. She wants to make Big Pharma lower their prices and lower costs for medical treatments. Why should we pay over $3,000 for a cesarean while in France it only costs $303 dollars? There's no excuse for that.

Medicine in the U.S. is outrageous, too. The same medicine we buy here for $300 a pill, for example, you can buy in Germany for $10. Believe it or not, Bill O'Reilly was reporting about that back in 2001.

Both of these need to be lowered, which would help, but it's going to be really tough to get doctors to take a large pay cut. They've got old student loans to pay AND they want to be a millionaire in five years time, so good luck with that.


Medi-Cal in California tried to cut doctor fees and costs to treatments with the result that more and more doctors and dentists refused Medi-Cal patients. Not everyone can buy supplemental insurance and it's a hassle. I believe Hillary's plan to add a public option to the PPACA is a better deal. That way, the Public Option can include expanded Medi-Caid so buying supplemental health insurance would be unnecessary since it's built in.

I just don't believe single-payer is feasible.