government rules and regulations have so distorted the health care system that the system is breaking. it isn't that health care is expensive, its the hoops and restrictions placed on it that make health care expensive.
recent new hospital in my area of the country was only allowed to open provided they did not take away business from other hospitals. This includes opening a second outpatient surgery room in an existing hospital to offering advanced cancer treatment. This is very common in the US. It usually goes under the name "Certificate of Need".
The reasoning is that health care is improved if health providers do not duplicate expensive services. this has grossly driven up costs in many areas. then throw in rules which can force Emergency Centers out of network for ALL insurers. See a recent example in San Francisco with a PUBLIC hospital [1]
TL;DR Health care is only this overly expensive because politician meddling. From preventing competition among hospitals to preventing competition among insurers, unless of course you donate properly.
> recent new hospital in my area of the country was only allowed to open provided they did not take away business from other hospitals. This includes opening a second outpatient surgery room in an existing hospital to offering advanced cancer treatment. This is very common in the US. It usually goes under the name "Certificate of Need".
> TL;DR Health care is only this overly expensive because politician meddling.
Certificated of Need were something _hospitals_ themselves lobbied for. It's a case of "this is awesome when it protects me, and an aberration when I'm on the losing end".
Certainly politicians enacted such things, but I'm not losing sleep over the hospitals. Only us mortals, stuck with the cost of the system.
recent new hospital in my area of the country was only allowed to open provided they did not take away business from other hospitals. This includes opening a second outpatient surgery room in an existing hospital to offering advanced cancer treatment. This is very common in the US. It usually goes under the name "Certificate of Need".
The reasoning is that health care is improved if health providers do not duplicate expensive services. this has grossly driven up costs in many areas. then throw in rules which can force Emergency Centers out of network for ALL insurers. See a recent example in San Francisco with a PUBLIC hospital [1]
TL;DR Health care is only this overly expensive because politician meddling. From preventing competition among hospitals to preventing competition among insurers, unless of course you donate properly.
[1] https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/finance/zuckerberg-hos...