re: What is the REAL reason we can not go back to the old healthcare system.

then why arent they spending money on r&d like they should?

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Technological advances which are expensive

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Name another field in which technological advances increase cost.

In 1990, you could buy:
A Honda Civic LX for $10,450
An Apple Mac LCII for $2400 (just the CPU, no display)
A mobile phone for $1400 (with a $1 per minute rate)

A 2017 Civic LX lists for just under twice what it cost 27 years ago, but is orders of magnitude safer, more efficient, more comfortable and more loaded with features. $2400 buys you a MacBook Pro capable of editing 4K video. And cell phone carriers give phones away for free if you sign up for $50 a month plans (with per-minute call rates too small to calculate, so they throw them in for nothing).

And yet, a routine apendectomy, which cost around $5000 in 1990, would run you an average of $35000 today. And complication rates are roughly the same.

Stop scapegoating "technology" for the unsustainable rise in health care costs. It clouds your view of the real reasons.