Thread by @RealSpikeCohen

Why has the cost of Lasik and cosmetic surgery plummeted, while all other healthcare costs have skyrocketed?

Why do Rs & Ds argue endlessly over who should pay the bill for healthcare (patients or taxpayers), but not about why the bill is so high?

Because you're being robbed.

R & D politicians rob you for the billionaires who put them in office:

- Insurance mandates & subsidies
- Certificate of need laws
- Big pharma patent abuse
- Generic import bans
- Cost-plus regulations

Get rid of these, healthcare becomes affordable.

They can't have that.

Instead, they pretend to fight over it, while it becomes so expensive that eventually no one can afford to directly pay, and then they make it completely taxpayer-funded, so that those cronies can charge whatever they want, and pass the bill along to you, the taxpayer.

Why not just tax the rich to pay for it then?

Because the rich pass all their costs along to the consumers of their goods & services. You.

So the poorer you are, the higher a % of your income is spent buying things, the higher your de facto tax rate is.

It's a shell game.

The answer is to get government out of healthcare entirely, like with Lasik and cosmetic surgery, so costs go down, and competition and innovation will lead to better access and quality.

Republicrats won't tell you that, because they don't serve you. They serve their sponsors.