hard to understand how citizens which vote have allowed this for profit travesty to last so long & ruin so many lives.

No shit have worked in medicine most of my adult life when profits are the driving force the patients always suffer I remember when health insurance was not for profit care was much better and you didn't worry about the bill Republican party changed that for their wealthy buddies so they can get richer at our expense

I have seen people walk away from the pharmacy counter because they can't afford the medicine...it is heartbreaking...especially when it is a child or an elderly person...thank goodness we have a pharmacist who hands out discount cards to see if he can help...

If you consider only the fact that 25-50% of health insurance premiums go to administrative costs and profits, nd that government run health care such as medicare of the VA only use about 3% for administrative costs, then it is pretty obivous that private health insurance is nto more efficient than government provided health care.

We need to get rid of the ambulance chasing culture in the US that has drove up prices. We also need to remove a lot of the restrictions we have on medical care, and institute regulations that give the government a larger say in negotiating health care costs.

Our whole society has been corrupted by greed

Any essential service which is commercialized winds up stressing profit over everything else and cuts corners on quality and real service.

I know of two that almost went bankrupt. One guy owned several rental properties. He died from cancer a few years ago. His wife sold all the rentals to pay the bills after he died. Maybe kept one or two. She called me up one day in tears asking if I wanted to buy her house. Things that take a lifetime to get can be gone in just a matter of months. I don't think he lasted a year after being diagnosed. 6 mons in he said he was 180K in the hole. Sad.

BTW we know for profit medical has been a scam since Nixon.