Unbelievable arrogance

The Bush Administration thinks the answer to rising health care costs is to make people pay more for their health care costs up front so they will make better choices. They think folks are just spending too much money on health care because it is someone else's money.

How much arrogance do you have to have to tell the American people that they are the problem in health care because they are spending someone else's money for their health care when you are getting taxpayer funded, high-quality health care? Just enough to qualify to work for the Bush Administration I guess. This is what Roy Ramthun, Bush's health adviser said to the Associated Press:

"We know Americans spend their money differently than they spend somebody else's money."

Ramthun thinks the reasons that health care costs are too high is because people are going to doctors for no good reason at all and they are choosing higher costs non-generic drugs all by themselves because they are spending someone else's money instead of their own. How much choice do you get in your health care over drugs and how much are your out-of-pocket costs these days? What world do these guys live in that think people have a lot of choice about their health care and aren't paying significant premiums and out-of-pocket costs? Oh yeah, taxpayer funded health-care world.