Man I thought I had it bad when I was in sales paying for Blue cross/ blue shield 180 a month in the early 2000's. That was great coverage, it must be double or triple that now. This is a hyper inflating monster thats not going to slow, there has to be an eventual collapse to it. If not for the insurance companies most the doctors would be out of business as they are way priced out of the market.
If you ever watch or read about a foreigner who had to use our services for some reason without insurance, often you will hear them say(and I heard this 3 times myself), extortion, or extortionate prices. That's where we are at right now.
But it's a bit funny and troubling that the insurance/doctor co-dependency is very similar to the espn/pay tv co dependency. Insurances just accept the price increases from the medical community no matter how absurd(like the pills that went from $20 per 500 to $1600 per 500 in one year)and pass the price hikes along to us. To bad there is no Netflix of medicine to disrupt the cycle.
Really though, we can talk about Obama care or whatever care, the bottom line is, the first thing your taxes should go to is your healthcare coverage as there is nothing more important then your or your family's health. Not any tanks, not any roads, not any moon lander(as much as i love them), without your life none of that matters obviously.
Some like to point out though that they dont want to carry others or pay an unequal amount towards the pot. But if everyone picked and chose we could eliminate good 90% of Americans from healthcare, because you cost more because you are to poor, you are to fat, you eat to much fast food, you have a genetic predisposition towards certain sicknesses, you like to drive fast, you ski, you are plain to dumb to survive etc etc.....
We really just need to get together as a country on this, it is just plain the right and decent thing to do. people should not have to play Russian roulette when they get a bump and hope it goes away or risk their family going into decades long debt. the whole thing just reeks of Dickensian England and no, despite how nice the period dramas make it look from the view of the upper class, you would not want to live there as anything but them.