Overview

This blog focuses on American healthcare system, it's problems, it's positives and some of the real problems it faces.

For years, everyone in Washington has been faced with the facts and chosen to ignore them. Healthcare funding in the US is in crisis mode because of pure demographic numbers--there are more older people in Medicare than there are younger workers to pay for Medicare.

Our Congressfolk, presidents and beaurocrats have ignored this problem because they didn't want to deal with it. I can understand it because it can't be dealt with by our government. Our government is too slow, to mucked up in red tape to help. Now, we're told that the answer is increased regulation.

The problem is that government regulation is what is causing our healthcare system to deteriorate. There are too many restrictions on doctors and hospitals. Our Congressional leaders are more concerned about passing new pet regulations for their big contributors than to listen to common sense people in the field.

That sounds dire, but there is hope. In this blog I hope to outline some clear steps that our country can take to improve the system and prevent a healthcare armageddon.