Many here don’t feel it as much because they get their insurance charges are blunted through large employers who get a break over small businesses - but even they are paying a lot more for much less care.
Healthcare needs to be overhauled from the start by people not named Ezekiel Emmanuel.
How procedures are billed, who can bill them, EMR requirements, pharma price reform - the conversation needs to start immediately
Controlled immigration is part of the solution to making the cost tolerable as well since we simply cannot afford universal coverage while simultaneously allowing unfettered influx - despite all of the votes it brings to the Dems.
It’s simple math, and it’s not really debatable. As set up now, the system is already buckling under its costs.
Reverting to an open market where rules and regs don’t discourage small offices from popping up to offer competitively priced alternatives for care as well as quality (for example seeing a private board certified doctor who knows you rather than getting an under trained nurse practitioner on a Skype visit with no physical exam).
Such a system as it used to be would also get the visits out of the hands of the ultra aggressive hospital billing departments who are are rewarded for aggressive and novel ways of “capturing more of the charges”.