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BTW, everyone says “healthcare is broken,“ but rarely does anyone say how or why. I have interacted with the healthcare system A LOT this past year with great insurance coverage and the BEST treatment. I count myself fortunate. The healthcare professionals and pharmaceuticals have been world class.

Hands down, it has been the best treatment one could hope for. The cost paid by insurance has been kind of crazy. Everyone send to agree that everything is too expensive and complicated. The complicated criticism it seems to me is driven entirely by prolix insurance companies and their Byzantine

policies, rules, regulators, and profit motives. People always have complained and always will complain about how expensive things are, and medicine is no different. IMHO, the cost of healthcare is driven by too many factors to be overly sure about blaming any particular one, but the biggest one

is that American sacred cow: capitalism. While I believe in capitalism, IMHO the profit motive in healthcare is a huge factor killing Americans’ ability to get cost effective healthcare services and pharmaceuticals. At least, I wonder what would happen if there were fair and reasonable compensation