Insurance companies have a motivation to see high healthcare costs - it justifies higher premiums, and in a broken 'public' healthcare system that entrenches in

Insurance companies have a motivation to see high healthcare costs - it justifies higher premiums, and in a broken 'public' healthcare system that entrenches insurance middlemen, and subsidizes their costs for those unable to afford them, you're just going to see costs skyrocket endlessly. Public healthcare, of any sort, should not involve working with third party insurance companies. In any case, this is also why medical tourism is a thing - you could go get the exact same treatment, to completion, half way around for far less than what you the cost you were quoted for a single round in the US - including housing and other costs.