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> But cost of healthcare is astronomical in part because malpractice insurance is expensive, because too many people abuse it.

You pulled the “trigger a European” card. This is not why the US healthcare is astronomically high. The reason is: practically no meaningful regulation and thus free roaming oligopolies of a few providers with insane billing practices (which hospitals are covered, etc.). And much more...

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And some of the meaningful regulation drastically increases costs. Mostly for good reasons.

Why would that be? In countries with universal health care (which would be pretty high up on the regulation scale) costs for medical procedures are significantly lower. [0] Americans have to understand that they are drastically overpaying for almost everything medical including drugs. There is no way around it.

[0]: https://www.healthnewsreview.org/2012/03/comparing-health-ca...

Oh yes, but it's pretty different when you're regulating interactions between complex network of private entities, and just telling state health fun to cover some procedure.

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