Health Care Costs In America

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Doctors volunteer to help Americans cut off from health care by the cost | 60 Minutes​

Apr 5, 2026
A nonprofit called RAM is bringing free health care to Americans who need it. Some patients wait days and sleep in their cars in order to get dental, vision, and medical treatment at RAM clinics.


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60 Minutes

RAM's free clinics full of needy patients, but slowed by red tape​

Apr 5, 2026
A patchwork of state licensing rules prevents medical volunteers from reaching more patients in need through RAM.


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T wants 1.5 trillion for the MIC. Not one cent towards health care for Americans.
 
Today, Cato releases The Cato Institute Handbook on Affordability. In our chapter, Cato Senior Fellow Jeffrey A. Singer and I explain:

If subsidies reliably delivered affordability, the United States would be a patient’s paradise. Instead, it is the world leader in subsidizing and mandating health spending. Between tax-financed government programs and compulsory private spending, government compels US residents to spend 14 percent of national income on health care, a larger share of gross domestic product than total health spending in any other advanced country. Subsidies and compulsory spending are so extensive, US patients are less sensitive to prices and wasteful spending than patients in nearly every other advanced nation.
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US Supreme Court rebuffs pharma challenge to Biden-era drug price​

May 18 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear a pharmaceutical industry challenge to a plan to curb Medicare drug prices adopted during Democratic former President Joe Biden's administration that drugmakers argued illegally forces them to accept steep discounts and jeopardizes innovation.

The justices turned away appeals by Novo Nordisk, AstraZeneca, Janssen Pharmaceuticals, Bristol Myers Squibb, Novartis and Boehringer Ingelheim. They left in place decisions by lower courts rejecting various legal claims against the drug price negotiation plan, which was part of Biden's signature Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/u...n-era-drug-price/ar-AA23ug0w?ocid=socialshare
 


Here it comes. Yes, it was. Many of you sensed it was. The proof is coming. MASSIVE. MONEY LAUNDERING. FRONT.
 
If the government can cover up the Epstein files, what else...
 
The only hope of fixing healthcare costs in America is to ban health insurance and get gov completely out of anything to do with it.

Which means, there ain't no fixing it.
 
Michael B

PROOF Health Insurance Companies are INTENTIONALLY RIPPING US ALL OFF

Jul 2, 2026


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Trump administration to end Medicare premium subsidy program​

July 28 (Reuters) - The Trump administration will end a subsidy program, meant to keep premiums stable for Medicare prescription drug plans, after 2026, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said on Tuesday.

The agency said its review of 2027 bids showed insurers have gained enough experience with Medicare Part D to accurately price their plans without support from the program.

More:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/ot...-subsidy-program/ar-AA28Uis8?ocid=socialshare
 


A Canadian who lived their “universal healthcare” system for 32 years just gave Americans the reality check everyone pushing “Medicare for All” needs to hear.

She didn’t rant. She showed the receipts:

• Nearly 200,000 emergency patients waited 48+ hours for a hospital bed last year alone.
• Almost 1 million Canadians now leave the ER without care because the wait is too long (up fivefold in some reports).
• ER doctors warn these delays are lethal.
• 5.9 million adults still have no regular family doctor.
• Specialist waitlists are exploding — median 28.6 weeks from GP referral to treatment. Some doctors are closing practices to new patients.
• Only 2.5 hospital beds per 1,000 people — well below the OECD average. Hallway medicine is routine. Patients die on stretchers.

Her line hits hard:

“We want universal healthcare… until we learn.”

She’s not wrong. Canada’s single-payer model gives coverage on paper but delivers rationing by queue in practice. Long waits aren’t a bug — they’re the feature when government controls supply and prices.

America’s system is also broken: crushing costs, administrative bloat, and real gaps for the uninsured or underinsured. We spend nearly twice as much per person and still have problems.

The solution isn’t importing Canada’s waiting rooms. It’s fixing supply (train more doctors/nurses, cut red tape), adding real competition and price transparency, expanding HSAs/direct primary care, and protecting innovation.

Be informed before you trade one set of problems for another.
 


This Canadian couple fled their country after stage 4 ovarian cancer was met with “Medical Assistance in Dying” as the main option.

Now standing outside a Texas medical plaza, the husband says he felt ashamed to be given a full 30 minutes of a doctor’s undivided time.

In Canada: wait lists, lost chemo orders, and a system that increasingly offers death as healthcare.

In the US: actual care that kept her alive.

They call it Healthcare vs. Deathcare for a reason.

There are countless stories like this. Those who think socialized medicine is great have illusions of grandeur.
 
Goldhedge said:
She’s not wrong. Canada’s single-payer model gives coverage on paper but delivers rationing by queue in practice. Long waits aren’t a bug — they’re the feature when government controls supply and prices.
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They have to ration it, as the cost of providing good care to the average person costs far more than the amount they can tax from the average person in order to pay for it.

It's a math problem that those pushing for this shit seem incapable of grasping.
 
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