phillyBurbs.com July 13, 2023
From 2018 through 2021, the annual cost of the predatory system of American health care rose by 20%, from $3.6 trillion to $4.3 trillion.
In 2018, one of my favorite commentators on that system wrote, “What drives the cost… is lack of transparency, administrative glut, overregulation, and ongoing consolidation.”
In June 2023, the “PATIENT Act,” H.R. 3561 — passed unanimously out of the Energy and Commerce Committee in the House of Representatives.
That’s right. In a refreshing spasm of bipartisan agreement, the committee members of both political parties voted for it.
One of H.R.3561’s features is its promise of exposing certain dark, putrid recesses of American health care, of shining a light into the places where profiteers and parasites thrive.
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