IndependentinWis
Mayor
When Reagan came into office the health care cost were under the control of Regional Heath Car Organizations. They controlled health care by insuring the need for services and equipment in every service area in the nation. Reagan changed the system to allow "competition" to control costs. The problem that Reagan didn't foresee was that there is no real competition in the health care provision industry. So no we have a situation where in the past expensive the purchase of expensive equipment was held to just that which was needed, now every clinic and doctors office has to have it all. Where there might have been one or two MRI's and Ct scanners in a service area being used at 90% capacity, now we have ten or more, all being used well below capacity, but being charged to patients a a rate that allows the provider a profit. This has pushed prices up well beyond the average CPI. What you can say about this equipment goes for all of the service provided in the health care industry. If we ever want to do something about our health care industry we need to find a way to go back to controlling costs before our system implodes upon itself and us.
