Health Insurance Lottery

In a never ending stream of information that is proof that health care is too expensive for the average citizen, my home state of Oregon has now established a lottery for health care that gives the lucky recipient a chance to avoid bankruptcy by attaining coverage that they otherwise have no chance to afford. This is a sad day when we reach a point where getting health coverage is equivalent to winning millions. In a day and age when health costs demand "your money or your life!" it is no wonder that getting health care coverage would be the prize of a lottery system.
An interesting statement has come out of this. According to Barney Speight (director, Oregon Health Plan Fund) the state of Oregon has a comparable number of uninsured right now as they had in the late eighties when the last effort to "fix" heatlh care was implemented. This is an absolute confirmation that we cannot fix this problem unless we do something to address the underlying cost issues because even if states could cover their uninsured patients somehow the problem would still return 20 years later in a much worse scenario because health care costs continue to eat into our overall GDP. I know that is a bit technical but this is why we say the health care crisis is about "cost not coverage".
Good for Oregon for thinking outside the box (as they have on many past issues) but if you ask me this is a pathetic statement on the sustainability of health care costs bound to bankrupt us all eventually.