I don't think that anybody really believes that the mess we've made of billing/paying-for services via insurance + government + hospital/doctor is a good idea. At least nobody who has dealt with it for more than 5 minutes, which is most people over 25.
The problem is that nobody can agree on how to fix it. One side wants to socialize the whole thing, the other side wants to do... something else, I guess. Regardless, neither side has enough power to just do what they want, so we're stuck with this bizarre Frankenstein's monster instead.
Meanwhile it's almost impossible to escape from the mess. You can't just have no insurance and pay for yourself, because they've made the prices for most things ludicrously high and then basically rebated them to the insurance companies.
Actually, it reminds me just a bit of that paraphrase of the Laws of Thermodynamics: you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game.
I don't think that anybody really believes that the mess we've made of billing/paying-for services via insurance + government + hospital/doctor is a good idea. At least nobody who has dealt with it for more than 5 minutes, which is most people over 25.
The problem is that nobody can agree on how to fix it. One side wants to socialize the whole thing, the other side wants to do... something else, I guess. Regardless, neither side has enough power to just do what they want, so we're stuck with this bizarre Frankenstein's monster instead.
Meanwhile it's almost impossible to escape from the mess. You can't just have no insurance and pay for yourself, because they've made the prices for most things ludicrously high and then basically rebated them to the insurance companies.
Actually, it reminds me just a bit of that paraphrase of the Laws of Thermodynamics: you can't win, you can't break even, and you can't get out of the game.