Loading ...That artical just gave a bunch of dates about various laws. It never mentioned the obvious reasons for higher prices. Number one is way too many have insurance, mostly free, so go too often to the Dr for no real good reason. They just take advantage, even if they sneeze, or bang their elbow go to the Dr.
Adding unneeded demand raises costs. Then we have Doctors that over prescribe everything. And they play games with insurance companies. I have much experience taking parents to various doctors that took 5 years each to die. Plenty of stories on that one. “If you say this, they can do that” was common. One Dr told me people come in with a viral infection, antibiotics won’t help,but patients want them and the Dr feels obligated to write an unneeded prescription.
And naturally probably another reason for higher costs is all these expensive MRI and various scanning machines, way beyond X rays. Nothing that I said above was in the article about reasons for higher costs.
Most everything in print these days is a distraction away from the truth. The only time the truth comes from them is after most people already know. All info is somebody’s agenda or advertisement.