Inasmuch as the points made in this article would help to a small extent in bringing health care to everyone, there is really only one way to actually drive down the cost of health care to make it affordable for everyone:
Eliminate the profit motive.
The example I cite most often in supporting the truth behind this assertion is the fact we have spent trillions of dollars and literally millions of man-years in looking for cures and have succeeded in curing only one - Smallpox.
The simple fact is that all for-profit businesses have a legal fiduciary duty to the company and/or stockholders to create a profit. From planned obsolescence in manufacturing to repeat business in the services industry, repeat business is the only way to guarantee an on-going flow of funds and profits. Treatments need to be repeated, thus creating more profit. Even if one charges an arm and a leg for a cure, it's one-time income and has a limited amount of money it can generate for a business.
We spend more per capita on health care than any other First World nation on earth. And yet, we have 15%-50% of our population uninsured or under insured.
People die in the US because some company has a legal requirement to make a profit. Until the profit motive is taken out of, or adequately addressed in, health care in the US, people will continue to die just so someone else can make a buck.
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