Then, somehow, the behemoth grew, the federal government got deeply involved through sundry medicare this and medicaid that, insurance companies started seeing big $ on the horizon, HMO’s evolved, “medicine” started costing an arm and a leg, doctors started exploiting government programs with egregious charges and performing sundry unnecessary “tests” to justify and pay for expensive technological equipment…
…and the whole thing spiraled out of whack.
This is why socialized medicine is inevitable. Business didn’t care when it was a trivial cost; now it’s a big hunk of payroll costs, and they want out from under it. Especially businesses who have to compete with foreign companies that don’t have to pay it.
We had an opportunity to do things differently a few decades ago, and business would have supported those reforms. We didn’t do it. Now they just want out, and don’t care about how.
