The squabble between doctors and insurers blaming each other for the increase in health care costs is mounting, and saying that none of the health-care legislations under consideration has done enough to solve it.

President Barack Obama has called a February 25 meeting to discuss a compromise between the two bills passed in each house of Congress.

The legislation continues to feature an insurance mandate that would require everyone to purchase health insurance or face fines of 2.5% of their income or $695 per year, whichever is greater. Cuts to Medicare and Medicaid are also part of the package.

According to Federal Estimates, expenditure on health care in U. S has reached $2.5 trillion in 2009 and is expected to jump to $4.5 trillion in 10 years.

Hospitals say that they are under pressure, dealing with more uninsured patients, demands by doctors for hike in salaries, and underpayments from Medicare and Medicaid.

And doctors say they are weighed down by medical malpractice costs.

President of Health Policy & Strategy Associates, Robert Laszewski, said, "It's always someone else's fault. There is not an incentive for these people to cooperate because the game they are all playing is getting a bigger piece of the pie".

According to a report by the American Medical Association this year, two insurers control 70% of the market in 24 states, up from 18 last year.