In 2009 I paid about $6,000 for good health insurance for three of us. In 2018 I paid over $22,000. In that period I paid $123,843.48 in premiums and $8,617.90 for out of pocket health care costs including minor dental work. We are healthy people. Those are the facts.
Yeah, medical costs are out of control. Especially if you are slef-employed or not employed and paying for it all yourself and are not an illegal or indigent.
The medical system in this country is completely EFFED UP!
It would also take an immediate 20% off of US GDP as hundreds of thousands of medical middlemen hit the unemployment line, even if it lasts only for a year or so while the economy adjusts.
Because of this, no politician - including Trump - will touch real health care reform with a with a ten foot pole - even though the final result would be hugely positive, especially for small business. We will continue to get abominations like Obamacare that keep all the major players' profits in place and redistribute a few crumbs to politically favored groups which screwing the middle class who has "nowhere else to go" anyway. They think we aren't smart enough to figure out what they are doing.