Comparison - Health Care vs. Grocery shopping.

      I just finished reading Glenn Beck's book, "Broke". It's a fascinating read, and makes a lot of common sense. I was particularly intrigued by a side bar he used to compare health care costs with grocery shopping. Right now, there is very little free market competition among health care providers (doctors. imaging centers, diagnostic labs, hospitals, etc). Despite what the government says, most people in this country are covered by some sort of medical insurance, either private insurance through their employer, medicare, or medicaid. Other than paying your premium you have no "skin in the game". You go to the healthcare provider, get your treatment, test, scan, whatever, and you don't care what it costs, because someone else is paying for it.  That is the problem! If you had to pay, healthcare providers would suddenly have to compete for your dollar, and they would all be trying to provide the best quality for the lowest price. Get the government totally out of health care, and prices will plummet. Don't believe me? Check out Glenn's side bar below and decide for yourself.

       Free market competition ALWAYS works, regardless of what those Progressives in the Government tells you.