I’m not opposed to paying for actual costs.
Can the heaLTH CARE SYSTEM BECOME more ECONOMICALLY EFFICIENT?
Absolutely.
Is the HC System billing process absolutely corrupt? Yep.
Docs [my sole practitioner has long been retired...] no longer seem to run the system. It’s the yuge HC “systems” run by highly paid “administrators” along with HC “insurance” that just have let billing run amok. It’s sick and corrupt.
How health care is paid for is the most inefficient mess imaginable. And yes, everything including my own doctor’s group, has been swallowed up by a few giant entities — I guess their economy of scale and “too big to fail” ties to government give them an advantage. It will all crash eventually (my guess is a week after I start Medicare).