Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Bernie Sanders Blames Corporations for What the Government Did to Healthcare Costs" video.

  1. Our medical care is a system where they tried to make everybody happy. Government's the biggest player. They set the prices. For some procedures they set their prices lower than the cost of the procedure. Causes distortions. A little history: There was no such thing as health insurance until the big corporations needed a workaround for wage freezes imposed by the federal government in the 30s/40s, due to Depression or WW II. I forget which. Wage freezes imposed by the feds were a big competitive advantage to companies big enough to offer health benefits, without raising salaries. This gave those companies a huge advantage in the labor pool, and made them look like white knights to the public. Before that, you bought the health care you could afford, and the community usually pitched in quite a bit, too, with fund-raisers for hospitals, and doctors that weren't rich, but the car dealer gave him a car, the contractor built him a house, the farmer gave him a cow, ... A good doctor was never hurtin' for money, and he spread his skills as far and wide as he could manage, and people felt pretty good about pitchin' in. It ain't like that, today. And given what advantages we have, we could do community hospitals like we used to, but government's removed that from our personal consideration, so we just think of it in terms of money and paying our bills and letting somebody else take care of it.
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