When that health insurance CEO got shot, there was a lot of venting about health insurance companies and their practices, but much less about the practices of the health care providers.
Noah Smith argued that the latter should be considered the main 'villain':
> This means that eliminating all administrative waste and inefficiency in the entire U.S. health care system — not just at insurance companies, but administration of government insurance programs — could save Americans at most about $680 per person every year, and probably not anywhere close to that amount.[3] A few hundred bucks a year is not nothing, but it’s only a small fraction of the $5683 more that we pay relative to other countries.
> So the fundamental reason your health care costs so much is not that the health insurance companies are lining their pockets. And it’s not that insurers are an inefficient mess. It’s that the actual provision of America’s health care itself just costs way too much in the first place.
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