That's the thing. People like to always find the one cause that's causing these problems. They don't realize that at this point pretty much all participants in

That's the thing. People like to always find the one cause that's causing these problems. They don't realize that at this point pretty much all participants in this system are corrupt and milking patients for as much as possible. No need to point fingers at hospitals, doctors, pharmaceutical companies or other parties. They all are complicit in this fraudulent system. "He has no end of stories of hospital administrators doing wasteful things, and insurance companies screwing doctors and suppliers, of doctors running rackets, and of course (his opinion) that huge numbers of Americans get medical treatment and then disappear, never paying their bills, and so the whole system is designed to extract 2-3x from the people who _do_ pay in order to cover the ones who don't." when you look at what the US spends as percentage of GDP compared to other countries then it's pretty clear that they are covering way more than the losses non-paying patients cause.