Reply #5: Article from Green Bay paper... [View All]

[TheMightyFavog]

http://greenbaypressgazette.com/news/archive/local_22322845.shtml

Kagen, 55, who is running as a Democrat, said his campaign will focus on health care and calls his solution No Patient Left Behind.

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Kagen said the current system is based more on who is paying the bill. He said a colonoscopy at one facility might cost $2,500 while another would charge only $900 because health-care facilities aren’t held accountable for their prices except to the insurance companies.

“The prices should be openly disclosed,” he said. “It should be a unitary pricing system because the real price is hidden.” He said this is not the same as universal health care.

“We are just not ready for that,” Kagen said. “I just don’t think our country is going to take the leap to a universal-payer system.”

His plan is a baby step in the right direction, I'll give it that.