Here’s a two-word summary of
why the American healthcare system is fundamentally broken and cannot be
fixed with policy tweaks: perverse incentives.
If you type sickcare in
the custom search box on this site, you get 10+ pages of articles. I
have covered healthcare/sickcare in depth for many years. I
have many correspondents within the sector (doctors and nurses), and
have paid the unsubsidized costs of insurance as an employer or as a
self-employed worker for 30+ years.
Here are two charts and three stories of many I’ve published over the years:
ObamaCare: The Neutron Bomb That Will Decimate the U.S. Economy (November 21, 2013)
Greed + Cartels = U.S. Sickcare/ObamaCare (February 13, 2014)
Obamacare is a Catastrophe That Cannot Be Fixed (December 6, 2013)
The unsubsidized cost of Obamacare for two 60-year old healthy adults ($23,244 annually) for an inferior plan to what we had before exceeds the cost of rent or a mortgage for the majority of Americans. Please ponder this for a moment: buying healthcare insurance under Obamacare costs as much or more as buying a house.