The American health care system is a perfect system. Its product is perfect, the only alternative the customer really has is to live in discomfort or die. Its

The American health care system is a perfect system. Its product is perfect, the only alternative the customer really has is to live in discomfort or die. Its prices are fully unregulated. The care providers are fully utilized and can therefore practice pretty much the prices they want. The insurance companies are consolidating and can therefore practice the prices they want, while providing an ever dropping level of service. Consolidation with pharmacies even give them a way to control the distribution and a way to recover some of their disbursement. Pharmaceutical producers are protecting their markets through patents that give them monopolies, which combined with a total absence of governmental overlook lets them practice the prices they want. The more the patient needs the medicine, the pricier drugs can get. The incentive is then that the deadliest the disease is, the priciest the drug gets. The only balance that should exist with insurance weighing for lower treatment costs ends up being lower reimbursement and more borderline control on the patient. Truly this is a perfect system, ever more efficient at extracting money from people suffering. All the incentives are in, just not weighing in the favor of patients.