Quote:I truly appreciate your input, but you're off base. Here is a slide from a presentation by Dr Atul Gawande from a recent lecture that I attended that shows the point I'm making:




The red represents the mortality rate of hospital inpatients, the blue represents the cost in dollars for the admission. This data covers nearly two hundred years from 1820 to 2010.


Since no one would answer before, the answer to my question of WHEN healthcare costs began their exponential increase is 1965. Third party insurance existed nearly 80 years before that.


Now, what unique event did occur in the healthcare industry that could've created such an increase?


Hint: It wasn't technology, a change to protocol, or a medicinal breakthrough.


Anyone care to guess?