Are the costs if medical care in the USA high due to the fees incurred by the private medical people for malpractice insurance? Or is it just greed? Just a thought.
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Yes, yes and yes.
In the 1960's health care and insurance was affordable for the average single pay check blue collar family.
Then along came the mandates to not turn away anyone for any symptom (real or imagined) The E.R.s were and still are compelled by force of law to treat every one and anyone for anything and everything even if that malady would be better addressed by a regular office visit during regular hours. Costs have to be recovered and the climb has not stopped yet.
You mentioned malpractice. That also is component of rising costs.
Unfortunately it's the rest of us who are paying the price indirectly for the insurance and the lawsuit settlements. The physician who amputates the wrong leg or the aid who administers the wrong medicine bear no responsibility and suffer no consequence.
Health care in America has become a quasi extension of the social services systems here and the costs of supporting those administrative infrastructures have to be subsidized as well.
All of those dollars have to come from somewhere.
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