re: How Corrupt Is Our Healthcare System?

Let me splain something to you. Human beings are hopelessly corrupt. It is our nature. You, me , everybody. The only question is the extent of the corruption.

It's corrupt. About a couple years ago I was listening to a PBS interview on the problem of exploding medical cost. Dealt with basic causes for the problem. I remember the interview because I was stunned at the revelations about the reason for this problem. The guest was a female MD operating in the northeast somewhere. She was giving examples of the charges hospitals were allowed to charge patients for treatment of common ailments. In one case the charge to treat a particular ailment (was not a serious ailment - rather routine) was between$ 450 and $ 43,000. That was the absurd range between charges the hospitals was allowed to charge the patient for a hospital stay.

I wondered if the charge range varied by region? What about the cost of indegent care? Like how much of the cost of providing care for illegals (for example) or migrants was rolled over into the cost hospital charged and passed on to their insured patients? Tried to catch most of the interview but I was on the road. Missed portions of the broadcast.

I remember thinking........at some point in the future the system will crash. Only ultra-wealthy will be able to afford quality medical care at a good facility. For the rest of us grunts, our monthly medical premiums will slowly grow to the point we'll be paying rediculously high premiums for the MD to prescribe aspirin. Forget about adequate Doctor-Patient consulations.

Donald Trump was supposed to deal with that. Believe it was one of his campaign promises. To my knowledge no progress has been made on that.

Not good