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One of the problems is that insurance and medical billing practices create a positive feedback loop that inflates the cost of healthcare.
One way to solve the problem would be to pass a law making it illegal to bill different rates to insurance customers and cash customers - thus cutting the positive feedback loop.
However, this won't happen, because the insurance and medical corporations own congress thru the corruption of their privately funded electoral system.
So, we are stuck with whatever health care costs and system the corporatists decide we are allowed to have - and we can be sure that whatever it is, it will make them richer at our expense.
This is the point of the "bipartisan' proposal, which will require everyone to buy expensive coverage, and create a giant new federal enforcement and information collecting mechanism to ensure that everyone pays the required fees.
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