When will AARP support universal health care coverage?
We are willing to consider anything that will get us to the destination that I just described. Universal coverage is one way to do this. Now, there are many pragmatists, both inside and outside Congress, who believe that this is going to be a very difficult road to get to, universal coverage. While we would be most interested in considering it, it’s a highly difficult and probably even unlikely destination. So, the simple answer is, let’s look at it, but it’s going to be very tough to get there. Q: You indicated that the cost of drugs is a major reason for increasing health costs, but that’s not the total reason. What are some other reasons for the increasing costs of health care in this country? A: New technologies is one that I mentioned. But basically, what we’ve got here are the demographics moving towards people getting older and people spending more on their health. Virtually all provider costs are up. Costs in rural areas are up fairly substantially. You can look at virtually ev
