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SmartMuffin posted...

Here's the problem:
In the US, health care and health insurance are completely entangled together and monopolized by the health industry and government


gee I wonder how we ended up with such a dumb and stupid system that kills people

(spoilers, its cuz of socialist wage controls passed by FDR during the new deal)

It got progressively worse under Nixon. He thought Edgar Kaiser's program was a good thing, and HMOs became a thing.

Realistically, you're dealing with a cost spiral that goes way back to the early 20th century. In some ways, it was unavoidable. Resolving the problem at this point is going to take far more than either Obama or Trump could/can do about it.