Healthcare and insurance costs were rising long before Obamacare. The three primary forces are, in no order:
Trial lawyers, frivolous suits and huge payouts
MBAs who turned medicine into a cash cow at the expense of care
Government meddling and edicts (price fixing)
I served a 40 sentence in healthcare as a provider of services and hands on care.
Obamacare would have been the death of healthcare had it not been partially rolled back. It was never meant to address costs or quality of care. It was designed to collapse the system so government could wholly take over.
Over the last four decades, states have enacted hundreds of laws dictating precisely what insurers must cover so that consumers aren’t driven into debt or forced to go without medicines or procedures.
And that is why medical costs and insurance has skyrocketed in price.
What you said, if it isn’t covered in the policy, it’s on you. READ your policy coverage and always, always demand the provider get a preauthorization.
This is a 21 minute video of a New Zealand family visiting an American Walmart store for the first time. ( I love this family. They make cute and funny videos) We Americans too often take our blessings for granted. Even advanced nations lack the abundance we enjoy.
I agree. It should be phased out after a careful education for the younger folks who will one day retire without it. SS was supposed to be a safety net, but has become a retirement plan.