The suppliers - doctors(who's costs are driven up by legal tort), hospitals (really just business corporations), and the medical goods, medicines and equipment - all have driven up costs higher than if they had been left alone to fulfill the original goal (heal people).
The users - are to blame too for not shopping for their care as they would for a pair of shoes, for making a social day at the doctors' office complex to gab with other geezers on medicare, for being hypocondriacs because they don't have to pay for it, etc.
The hospitals - for having to fund the cost for indigent and illegal care through overcharging the government
and finally, the suppliers ---slap that "medical" tag on it and it becomes a whole 'nother level of item.....
The government is always to blame when it takes money from someone who's earned it and gives it to someone who didn't.
Popsicle stick ... 10c
Tongue Depressor ... $2
The ability to overcharge at will ... Priceless.
“I think the Medicare system is the victim of fraud...”
Basically anybody who could jump on the back of the sick
has done so ...including the government.