Washington Examiner March 16, 2023
By Havilah Wingfield

Soaring prices in healthcare are increasingly blocking Americans from accessing the care they need. Doubling hospital prices , rising insurance premiums, tripling deductibles, and unsustainable out-of-pocket costs are eating up our paychecks, threatening our living standards , and saddling many of us with debt we cannot manage .

We have a moral duty to find a solution that enables all people to access necessary healthcare while still maintaining our degree of quality that runs circles around what Europeans have . Currently, our prices of care prohibit such a solution.

Some insist that America’s price of care culprit is the free market system with its runaway market forces that jack up patient prices and prevent universal access to care.
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