What is your definition of tyranny? can extremely high health care cost be a form of tyranny?

after all…its a life and death issue isnt it? pay or die …literally!!!!

but others say the people who want to drive down the cost to patients so care is more affordable and more available are the tyrants. what do you think?

there are plenty of other gov. run programs that fully effect our lives and health , why isn’t the right attacking:

Public Education
National Parks / Interior Department
Tax Funded Police and Fire
Labor Unions
IRS
Farm Subsidies
Maternity Leave
Medicaid / Medicare
Highways
The Mint
Sewers
Sanitation
DMV’s
Import Tariffs
Energy Credits
Lemon Laws
Anti-Discrimination / Civil Rights Laws
Civilian Conservation Corps (during the depression)
Social Security
The Military
GI Bill
Emission Standards
National Center for Missing and Exploited Children
CDC
Veteran Care
Foreign Aid
OSHA
FEMA
NASA
Amtrak
FDIC
Federal Prisons

I know that each of the programs has different levels of success and effectiveness, but if that’s not enough…
The U.S. also lags when it comes to the treatment of chronic conditions.

This Commonwealth Fund report found that U.S. residents with one of seven chronic conditions- high blood pressure, heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis and depression- were more likely to 1) forego medical care due to costs and to 2) experience medical errors than were their peers in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Britain.

* 44% of U.S. residents with chronic illnesses said that they did not receive recommended medical care, fill prescriptions or visit a physician at some point because of high costs, compared with 7% of study participants from the Netherlands.
* 41% of chronically-ill patients in the U.S. spent more than $1,000 on out-of-pocket medical costs last year, compared with just 4% of folks in Britain and 5% of French patients, according to the study.
* Between 1997 and 2002, U.S. health expenditures grew 2.3 times faster than GDP.
* In comparison, health expenditures across other developed countries outpaced economic growth by just 1.7 times.
* Medicare is an expensive program overall. Medicare is expected to consume 13% of GDP in next year’s federal budget. It is crucial that legislators work to reform the Medicare program and to rein in total spending. However, when you consider the extensive health services that Medicare provides to our elderly population, it has done a remarkable job of controlling costs.