Health care costs in America are incinerating nearly 20% of the Gross National Product. Can you say, non-sustainable? Folks have been bloviating for decades about reforming the health care system with respect to quality, cost and access to care. This is quite the quagmire. If it were easily solved, then it would have been done during the Truman administration. He couldn't get it done. Here are a few reasons why it has been so tough to crack this case. Cutting costs can threaten medical quality. I know of no player in the Medical Industrial Complex who is willing to sacrifice his own revenue to serve the greater good. Pharmaceutical companies receive federal research dollars but are not subject to reasonable governmental control on their opaque pricing schemes. The public expects every conceivable medical benefit, preferably for free. The fee-for-service model drives unnecessary medical care. Pharmacy Benefit Managers – huge middlemen – suck out
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