Everyone wants healthcare expenses to go down but the biggest healthcare expense is the salaries of providers. So, hard to give the masses what they want without making a smaller group of people who benefit from the status quo angry.
https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2...
The 15% extra administrative cost of insurance and 15% extra administrative burden of applying care are the big culprits, in addition to extra costs on medicine and machinery. But it's interesting. Why is it that a comparatively deregulated and privatized system has so much extra pricing cost from bureaucracy?
[1] https://www.trillianthealth.com/market-research/studies/hosp...
Physicians also make 2-3x more than physicians in other countries. Why? Their education cost is also 2-3x higher than in other countries.
Hospitals and procedures are expensive, in part because of insurance. Insurance is high because our society is too litigious. It's also expensive because of consolidated private healthcare systems that can control and mark up prices due to lack of competition.
Other countries spend half what we do on healthcare. And their people are often healthier.
Last I heard the AMA controls how many doctors can be educated.