You mistake my post...I mean let the market set the price. IOW what the people, as a whole, can afford to pay. Like the way we set the cost of a loaf of bread. Insurance allows the hospitals and doctors to escalate their fees until ordinary folks could never afford to pay them.
The path to rational medical costs lies through tort reform.
Knew what your meaning was. No disrespect to you. Just a bit of history on my part. As a Dr., my Ggf was given what people could afford. Many times it was food and such. This is back in the day when doctors would make house calls.
“You mistake my post...I mean let the market set the price. IOW what the people, as a whole, can afford to pay. Like the way we set the cost of a loaf of bread.”
The price of a loaf of bread is set by supply and demand.
“Insurance allows the hospitals and doctors to escalate their fees until ordinary folks could never afford to pay them.”
Insurance allows people to get sick without the cost of their treatment to bankrupt them.
Government regulations and lawyers have raised the cost of health care tremendously.
Reform that!