GOP Talks About Lowering Health Care Costs, But Doesn't Really Mean It

The Republicans continually rant and rave about bringing down the cost health care. Of course, their answer is, as always, "more competition", as they do everything in the power to gut Medicaid and cut Medicare.

Kevin Drum has a nice little graph that shows the rate of health care spending among the three major health delivery systems:

If the GOP were really concerned about reducing the cost of healthcare in the United States, they would be pushing people into Medicaid and Medicare. Instead they are much more interested in taking care of their business cronies and give massive tax cuts to the rich.