>>3627833>US health care is, to my limited knowledge, the only industry where costs have risen faster than university costs, which were already rising at silly rates.Not only that. But US already pays more out of *taxpayer* money, per capita. Despite all the shit you have to pay out of pocket (private insurance, copays, etc etc), the US *government* already spends more per capita than virtually any other nation - including nations with higher cost of living like Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, etc. .
Obviously something is seriously fucked up.
And if you consider total expenditure (i.e. tax funded+private), it's insane that US has to pend double than pretty much everyone else. Apparently the "hand of the free market" is paralysed. At this point, healthcare is treated as a profitable, trillion dollar business rather than a service and utility. And with a political system that has legalised bribery ("lobbying", "campaign contributions", "fundraisers"), and a healthcare lobby with billions to spare, there's no chance anything will change.
