How will a unified financing system deal with rising costs?
First of all, it’s important to realize that no plan in existence has a fool-proof plan to deal with rising expectations for health care and the rising cost of meeting these expectations. However funding a large pool of patients under a single unified system makes it much easier to collect information (anonymously) about health care costs, provider practice patterns and which treatments are really working. If health care costs continue to spiral out of control, we as a society will have to decide how much we are willing to pay for health care and how they want this money to be spent.
