Healthcare investments in technology should be reducing costs. And they are. As far as I can see, this is just another example of class warfare and envy. The

Healthcare investments in technology should be reducing costs. And they are. As far as I can see, this is just another example of class warfare and envy. The fact is that even the poorest are better off medically than any point in the past. Because we've now got antibiotics, advanced imaging tech, minimally-invasive surgery -- all things available even to the poorest through Medicare or bad-debt writeoffs in the hospital -- more people can get better care than ever before. But those things came about because at the beginning, the developers were able to make a killing (excuse the pun) when they sold it. It was the willingness of the more affluent to spend so much that brought about the economies of scale that now let us produce so many of the standard treatments for so little (how much does something like basic antibiotics cost now, even for the uninsured?). Trying to control the costs of those early treatments that are still in the "pay off the investment" phase of their lifecycle is killing the goose that lays the golden eggs. I wish I could afford the same treatments that the zillionaires get today. But I know that in a not-too-long time those same treatments will become available to my economic means.