Insurance companies are not the villian, although the administration uses them as the villian. insurance companies write lots of policies for business, life, car, boat, flooding, earthquake. Yet we are complaining about insurance companies, for health insurance. If you want to know the true cost of medical insurance, you have to go back to every single expense, paid by everyone in the medical community.

None of those people work for free. Medical books can be over a hundred dollars for one book. Malpractice insurance is high due to excessive awards by a jury. Of course doctors have been ridiculed for high income. But would the same folks ridicule actors and pro-ball players who make 10 or 20 million per year. If people want to restrict what CEO and doctors make, dont forget about the very rich law firms.

The government will hire the same people from the now defunct health insurance industry and pay them just as much. You wont save a dime in the end.

If you want the best technology, you have to pay the price. Thru real competition, which we dont have, prices will come down, but only so far.... The rest is up to us. Drinking, drugs, overeating, bareback sex are just a few of the reasons some individuals make up for the bulk of the medical visits.

If you require medical insurance cover every itch, its going to cost a lot more. When people dont have any responsibility for the cost of care provided, like being billed for THREE attempts to put a needle in your arm, by a trainee, it just adds to the bill. The government RESTRICTS how many hospitals are allowed to have specific equipment, thus keeping the fees artificially high.