Once again, this discussion insists on equating health care with health insurance. As any good hacker knows, the solution should directly address the cause of t

Once again, this discussion insists on equating health care with health insurance. As any good hacker knows, the solution should directly address the cause of the problem, not merely the symptoms of the problem. The problem is the quickly rising cost of health care and the amount that we, as a society, spend on it each year. The cause of the problem is that people don't buy their health care like they do just about everything else -- it's all paid for by insurance. After reading this article, which was recently on HN, virtually everything I've heard from experts and policy makers sounds silly: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200909/health-care