So far you've just been complaining about greed.My position is exactly as I stated in the root post.
The health care industry is a money machine, a legalized scam, a price gouging racket, and is pricing themselves way above what the average person can afford. It is actually bankrupting many people. The problem is one of over-charges, duplicate charges, exaggerated services, Medicare and Medicaid fraud and corruption, and price fixing.
I don't think doctors, or the insurance companies, or the pharmaceutical companies are any more greedy than any of the rest of us. We've just passed a lot of stupid laws that let them manipulate their markets. The same thing would happen in any market facing the idiocy we apply to health care.
How would I fix it? I would ask Congress to make all in the health care profession to justify charges. And, if they can't legally do that, then at least they could expose the scam to the public by naming names, naming corporations, naming companies, naming hospitals, naming doctors, and naming pharmaceuticals. I would ask Congress to do whatever to shame those that are bankrupting this nation. Health care cost has gotten totally out of hand. No one can justify $1,800.00 a day for a tiny filthy hospital room. No one can justify charging $5.00 for a single aspirin. No one can justify $20.00 for a breakfast consisting of powdered eggs and wheat toast.
We have the highest cost and poorest health care among industrialized nations. That data is available online. Americans spend more on health care than almost any other country. The data is readily available online. Americans are going bankrupt and getting poorer because of the rising cost of proper health care. It's gotten so bad, that even Mr. Obama attempted to fix it. But, as we all know now, his attempt failed big time. I say make those in the health care industry justify cost and charges. Shame them if necessary. Bring attention to them by exposing them publicly.
Well, shaming them won't do squat. That leaves government price controls. How would you enforce them? How would you punish people who pay their doctors too much?