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This strikes me as a pretty clear sign of a failing health care system washingtonpost.com/business/2019/…
Like so many of our other institutions, the health care system works great for the wealthy and powerful -- the hospitals and insurance companies reaping record profits, the physicians getting paid twice as much as their overseas peers. And what are the rest of us getting?
Why are people having trouble paying for health care? Because premiums and deductibles keep rising. And where's all that money going? In part, toward billions in profits for insurance companies and their shareholders.
"This is okay, it's good actually, we shouldn't make any major changes to this system"
Under-appreciated reason for our health care cost crisis: if deductibles don't keep rising, how will surgeons continue to afford their boat club dues?refinery29.com/amp/en-us/surg…
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