Govt mandates that "health insurance" cover things for which I have no interest. Those things increase the cost. Govt mandates that I can't buy health insurance across state lines, which reduces competition.

There are so many ways in which govt increases the cost of healthcare that I could post large numbers of citations and not even scratch the surface.

> (In other words, you're wrong. And you know it.)

Are you claiming that govt involvement hasn't increased the cost of healthcare at all, or just quibbling about the size of the net increase?