Government ignores root of high care costs

As the health care conflict continues in Congress, the root cause of the soaring costs of health care is being ignored. The lack of regulation directed at pharmaceuticals, hospitals and health insurance companies allows them to prey on the consumers at the personal, corporate and government levels with impunity.

These entities should be declared to be monopolies. They should be regulated by state public service commissions just like power companies, telephone companies, natural gas supplies and a host of others.

I’d like to see a hospital try to explain the accounting practice that allows them to charge $10 for an aspirin to a public service commission. Big Pharma, hospitals and health insurance providers need to be regulated and explain their predatory practices. die” so that you don’t collect any of it.

By 70 with aches and pains with knees, hips, backs, etc., will you even be able to keep up 40 hours a week? If great health and longevity is in your genes, and you love your job, maybe this is OK, but not for the majority of people as they age.

I am tired of hearing how boomers and the poor and disabled are a burden on society. Boomers didn’t ask to be born and the disabled didn’t ask for their disabilities. I keep hearing about Gov. Rick Scott and his jobs, jobs. I feel he wants Florida to be a state of all high-earning and tax-paying people, and the rest of us can either die ormove out of state.

Further, huge homes — some $800,000 — are going up, and that is even for the over 55s. Do older emptynesters really need four-plus bedrooms with three-car garages and huge association fees to go with the amenities?