Yahoo! News | FREE MARKET MAKES HEALTH CARE VERY EXPENSIVE INDEED

"The soaring cost of hospitals and medicines suggests that capitalism is sometimes at odds with the common good.
Not many of us have the nerve to say that aloud yet. It's heresy.

Besides, the last time any public figure made a serious effort to reform health care, the result was near excommunication. Hillary Clinton's complex system of rules and regulations was easily caricatured by opponents, and the blowback was enough to keep any self-respecting politician away from health care for years. But in the coming decade, the soaring cost will force Congress and state legislatures to confront the problem.
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As more and more working Americans find themselves without health insurance, our faith in the ability of capitalism to provide a fundamental asset of American life is being sorely tested. Sometime in the next decade, we'll be forced to admit that government will have to step in and shore up the safety net by guaranteeing basic health care to all Americans. The old-time religion will have some new hymns. "

I've blogged repeatedly that the US private health care system is a menace to public health and to the economy. I've also written that Clinton's tentative public health care bill was visionary. We're seeing today that we needed to believe Clinton's vision 10 years ago.