I agree healthcare is heavily meddled in. As with most things government gets involved in the costs have skyrocketed. I believe the ACA will just drive costs higher and higher. I don’t think it’s sustainable. Until they start trying to drive cost down it is going to be an awful mess. One of the biggest drivers is the jackpot legal system that drives up medical insurance and forces doctors to over protect by ordering unnecessary testing. The AMA holds a lot of responsibility here also though. I don’t blame it all on lawyers. The AMA needs to quit protecting their own and when a doctor is screwing up they need to get rid of him. They need to limit damages to actual damages and dump the punitive damages. If a doctor needs punished they need to pull his license. The patient holds some blame here too. We all demand the latest greatest treatments, newest testing and the newest wonder drugs. The scary part is now that govt has full control of healthcare they will feel compelled to deciding your diet and they will be deciding who is worthy of treatment and who isn’t.
Tort reform and administrative simplification would reduce cost substantially.