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Our taxes fund more public health dollars per capita than almost anywhere else in the world. Medicare and Medicaid spending is higher than DOD budget, and that’s before you include medical research funded by NIH and DOD or VA spending.
The issue is that our prices are out of control because of regulatory capture and downstream inability of the government to negotiate lower prices.
What we need are price controls.
It's working as intended.
There's a lot of money to be made in making sure the US Govt isn't paying minimum dollar for goods and services, be it healthcare or military spending.
It’s about stealing everything they can between those that need and those that provide.
Insurance companies. Middle management. It’s everywhere. Needless spending that’s made up to create “industry”.
This industry should never have existed in the first place. It’s akin to fire departments standing in front of a burning home until the owner pays up, and if they don’t they get robbed while the place burns.
That was determined by the public to be greed driven, robbery and also fucking illegal.
But the insurance industry does it daily for generations, constantly creating scenarios where people die or become destitute and yet it’s legal?
Somebody explain.