[grania]

Prediction....competition will be terrific for prices and low cost alternatives to what insurance companies cover. There will be more information available about improving ones general health and immune system, and more concern about health eating, exercising, and lifestyle choices. When people pay their own bills, they'll notice some of the absurd costs without alternatives that insurance companies gleefully cover so they continue to raise rates.

One thing my mind can't resolve. The opioid crisis has spun way out of control with expanded Medicaid and Obamacare offering easy access to doctors and prescriptions that provide pharmaceutical poisons. Is there a connection? Maybe less people will become addicted if they know they're accountable for their decisions.

[ichabod1]

Well, maybe some of that overprescribing can be rolled back. And stopping Hezbollah’s heroin pipeline into the country may slow the epidemic as well.