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The problem is not the insurance...it is the cost of healthcare. No insurance plan can make it free. From Forbes magazine:In 1958, per capita health expenditures were $134. This may seem astonishingly small, but it actually includes everything, inclusive of care paid for by government or private health insurers. A worker earning the average wage in 1958 ($1.98) would have had to work 118 hours—nearly 15 days–to cover this expense. By 2012, per capita health spending had climbed to $8,953. At the average wage, a typical worker would have to work 467 hours—about 58 days.
In short, while time prices for other goods and services had shrunk to less than one quarter of their 1958 levels, time prices for health care have more than quadrupled!
No MRI, Cat-scan, dialysis, or knee replacements in 1958. And no statin drugs or nexium that we eat by the handfuls.
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