Should Hospital Costs be Capped or Regulated by the Government?

Well, the old can get coverage in Florida for all their pre-existing heart attacks, broken or wornout body parts, but a young diabetic without hope of a steady job and insurance cannot make to live to get old! Wow! No one in Florida's government sees diabetes as a disability so I cannot get insurance! Another reason not to live in Florida.... Time to move to France or Canada, and out of the "land of plenty!" There is hope that President Obama could bring us change, but I hope it isn't pocket change! TIME FOR CHANGE IN GOVERNMENT BOTH STATE AND NATION!

I think that the government intervention right now is what is helping to drive the cost up... They should give us money in a form of a tax credit to shop around for what you we deem to be proper coverage for us or our family. This will create more competition. The amount being 5,000 to 6,000 range. Also think that the money that we spend each year on the insurance that is not used should lower the monthly coverage cost. Good client appreciation type thing. Better incentive to eat right and what ever else. You can't blame the insurance company but you can blame the Doctor for when he/she once sees that the client is insured drives the price up. Then seeing that there may good doctors and bad doctors out there there should be a priced itemized contract that the individual is informed of. Like lets say "a stitch will cost you 20$ each".

It's about time to put out-of-space charges for health care to rest. Not only they are unproportional to average income but but simply ridiculous. Patients with chronic or life threatening conditions usually stress more about the ability to pay the bills than concentrate on getting well. Even if they have health insurance. This is unacceptable in the country like USA.