Ezra Klein in an LA Times’ op-ed, outlining the Republican and Democrat approaches to the health care. Here is the Republican’s take on the situation, which makes more sense to me:
The Republicans are taking a very different approach. Their plans all proceed from the assumption that the problem in healthcare is that costs are skyrocketing because Americans overuse their doctors. This theory postulates that because Americans don’t feel the cost of every individual treatment (because it is being paid by insurers and the premiums are being paid by employers), they demand more treatment than they actually need, spending too much and lifting the price of healthcare. The answer to this problem is simple: Make us pay for care directly rather than for premiums.
