On Nov 3, 10:18Â*am, N∅ ∅baMa∅
wrote:
We are incessantly being told that the cost of medical care is "too
high"-- either absolutely or as a growing percentage of our incomes.
But nothing that is being proposed by the government is likely to
lower those costs, and much that is being proposed is almost certain
to increase the costs.

Being the math illiterate that you are, you're right that nothing
being proposed will lower costs, they're not meant to. They're meant
to lower the *rate* at which those costs will continue to increase.
Meaning, to use a simplified explanation that you can hopefully grasp,
if what's being proposed will cost $1 trillion over 10 years, then
keeping things at the status quo will cost $2 trillion over the same
ten years. That's what reform is about - minimizing the rate of
increase.