American health-care is a hairball of state and fed regulation and control
If they would just promote cash payments with no middle-man, many parts of the health-care system would return to a free-market, free-choice system, with much lower prices.
I’ve always thought Indian Reservations should add clinics and hospitals to their list of businesses - outside of taxes and Fed.gov control
When I go to the chiropractor, he used to do the heat treatment to my back before the adjustment. All of a sudden he had to stop doing that because Medicare won’t compensate him if he does any therapy “for free”. He had been including some therapies in his charge of adjustment and Medicare came along and stopped it. So I no longer get the heat treatment because he has to charge extra for it out of my pocket. Medicare does a lot of dumb stuff that ends up costing us all more.