captainDave
I remember when health insurance was cheap enough for nearly everyone to afford. In the early 80’s, I think I was paying somewhere around $20 per month. At that time, you could buy coverage from hundreds of different insurance companies around the U.S. …Then the corruption started to happen. Insurance companies lobbied government to eliminate competition. Prices climbed as choices fell. Insurance execs started making enormous salaries. By the end of the 90’s my personal health insurance cost went up almost ten-fold. Then came the mergers and consolidations that lead to astronomical costs and finally the massive unsustainable government debacle we have now.
I don’t get why people can’t understand what Trump has been saying for so long. We have to trim the fat. –Allow competition, and the massive profits will go away automatically. There is always someone willing to provide a service a little cheaper, faster, or better than someone else if you let them. It’s really just that simple but nobody in the mainstream media wants to say it because that would be admitting that free-market capitalism works better than socialism. If I was able to buy insurance from a company in Georgia forty years ago via telephone and snail mail, don’t you think it would be a lot more efficient with today’s technology?