Not true. Consumers looking to get over and get FREE HEALTH CARE is what makes health care prices so high.
Health care was reasonably priced before the post-WWII wage and price freezes enacted (by demoncrats) to control inflation. That's what inspired some employers to offer a compensation package that included "benefits" because "benefits" skirted the federally-mandated pay cap.
So now most employed folks don't pay the full fare for their health care and neither do they pay for their health insurance (at least they don't think they do). Which leaves them two layers removed from the actual cost of that MRI their doctor prescribed to diagnose a head cold.
But the other factor is the litigious nation we've become. Physicians and hospitals pay out the wazoo for liability insurance because insurers settle even quasi-legitimate claims out of court in the twinkling of an eye to avoid protracted litigation and wackadoodle jury verdicts.
And the way to fix that (and a great many other economic woes) is: Tort Reform. Loser pays. That will bring the epidemic of capricious personal injury suits to a screeching halt.
unsustainable “wackadoodle jury verdicts”