My wife’s and my monthly health-insurance premium as quadrupled in the 14 years since Obamacare passed.
The present woke, socialist, crony-capitalist, political hairball known as American health care can mostly be blamed on Obama, Pelosi and the HHS
The Democrats plan was to make 100 million Americans dependent on government, and they have succeeded. We are presently stuck with this system. It can’t be reformed or eliminated.
So let it continue, for now. BUT Trump should give Americans choice.
Create medical “free trade zones” where only cash is accepted and FDA/HHS and trial lawyers have no power. Let this system grow along our present corrupt, bloated medical-delivery system. Give patients and citizens complete freedom.
Watch what happens.....
While much more complex, there are similarities between this problem and the problem of grossly inflated college tuition. Third party money removes incentives for those providing the service to control or reduce costs. It was also third party money that caused the mortgage crisis a few years ago (after Barney Frank and Company set the table).
If all of these markets had to price their products according to what their customers could afford out-of-pocket, pricing would be much different. As a society in general, we’ve got to ween ourselves off of dependence upon credit and other forms of third party funding.