[MtnClimber]

The author takes a long time to get to the point that it may be much better to have a deregulated system where sellers of both care and insurance would have to compete for consumers’ (buyers’, patients’) dollars.

[GOPJ]

The government pays Insurance companies that do Medicare Advantage programs $ 100,000 A YEAR PER SENIOR to provide "healthcare'.

It's why these lowlife companies can advertise on TV every season all day long. Lots of money there - then they can charge what they want and use incentives from hell to sign old people up to system that cheap when you don't need it and bankrupts you when you do need it.

[PGalt]

MAHA

[mewzilla]

CMS, the Centers for Medicare abs Medicaid Services, employs about 6,700 people.

And there’s the God only knows number of contractors that CMS uses.

People on Medicare and/or Medicaid aren’t clients or customers.

They’re just the grist for Deep State’s insurance and medical mills.

[ClearCase_guy]

Government doesn’t make anything better.

If health care becomes a basic business transaction in a national marketplace, then it will be maximally efficient and cheap.

[GailA]

BTT

[Paal Gulli]

You can’t get back to reasonable health care costs just by picking on the health insurance industry.

We also need federal tort reform, changing the practice to “loser pays.” That would stop all these fishing expeditions by personal injury ambulance-chasers, dramatically reducing how much doctors pay for malpractice insurance and how much hospitals and medical equipment manufacturers pay for liability insurance.