Go Gators. People cannot read for comprehension (not directed at you— having engaged in discussion with the unschooled).
This started with Kaiser. around the wage controls of the Liberty shipyards under WWII contracts.. which has now blossomed under this govt./union largesse into the nightmare HMO/foundation “provider” of Kaiser Permanente system— the largest save Harvard Health. Entire agencies and systems emerged over the years to come to this idiotic point of obamaumaocare.
Scales of economics apply to the trough suckers just as much as to manufacturers. And the trough eaters are eating well these days off of our money.... the “other people’s money” Thatcher spoke so eloquently about and which money we have run out of (borrowed time) Deo Vindice.
Best solution.....Hospital systems directly contracting with patients for levels of service. You pay them a certain amount a year for access to their facilities, and based on price, you can have different levels of service.
No middleman, with the extra overhead, that goes along with it.
The only “insurance” should be catastrophic insurance, that pays only for extraordinary costs. The sole purpose is to preserve wealth in cases of catastrophic medical bills, but not paying for every bruise or broken limb.