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The Cost Dilemma

“Can you believe how much our health insurance premium is going up this year?” my wife said to me. “No surprise to me,” I said to her. Health insurance has been heading this way for a long time now. Not only are premiums increasing at an incredible rate of 17% per year, the delivery of health costs by doctors and hospitals seem to be spiraling out of control. It is a well know fact that much of our health insurance premium today is well padded to take care of the indigent, the un-insured as well as the illegal immigrant. However, we continue to hear claims that 47 million people are uninsured. How did we come up with that number? “How did we let this happen?” a colleague asked me the other day. As in everything else in life, if we do not pay attention to the details in our lives the bad is liable to bite us when we least expect it. We have swept escalating costs under the carpet for too long. However, in this economy and for our future we now need to take control of managing our own health care and its related costs. Regardless of whether Government achieves its perceived “nirvana” with Universal health care, consumers will ultimately be paying the price.

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