“It amuses me when otherwise conservative people think that “equality” can and should be mandated for some services that we pay for and consume, while other goods and services should have their prices set by the market. Government intervention strikes again by “we the people” and the puppet masters we elect...”
It is amazing how many wealthy people, both conservative and liberal feel that they should get the Cadillac health care and not pay for it. Many don’t even want to pay the copay and demand lengthy medial office time to get prior approval for a non formulary drug. Some of the worse are the business owners, who got a bare bones policy for their workers and want extra for themselves.
Yes, and then those same business owners who selected lower cost, higher deductible health plans scream about how high their deductibles are.
However, one must also admit that a lack of meaningful consumer price competition in USA healthcare has enabled an often wasteful and inefficient and over-price healthcare delivery “system” to develop and become entrenched. But, that, too, is rooted in governmental intervention for many years, causing great cumulative effect. Distortions caused by a “little” govt intervention often lead to an accelerating cycle of greater distortions followed by greater interventions to “fix” the problems while actually making them worse..., and so on. Sooner or later it breaks down unless it can be overhauled.