Private insurance companies have earned the public’s distrust. They routinely put profitability above their policyholders’ well-being. And a system of private health insurance provision also has higher administrative costs than a single-payer system, in which the government is the sole insurer.

But the avarice and inefficiencies of private insurers are not the sole — or even primary — reasons why vital medical services are often unaffordable and inaccessible in the United States. The bigger issue is that America’s health care providers — hospitals, physicians, and drug companies — charge much higher rates than their peers in other wealthy nations.

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    When insurance insidious corporations claim they’re protecting the common people from greedy doctors, I’ll believe the doctors’ point of view.

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      It’s not even corporate insurance vs doctors. It’s corporate insurance vs corporate hospital who employ the doctors. A lot of doctors are pushed to up the numbers of patients they see by their corporate bosses even when everyone knows that will mean worse care.