Originally Posted by St Exupery

the GDP spend is a red herring. How much innovation in healthcare and new drugs come out of anywhere but the U.S.? Less than 50%. Much of that is because other countries regulate how much a company can charge for a drug. Americans pay much more for the same drug here than you would pay elsewhere.

Someone else said it here earlier. If you want to find where things changed with healthcare costs go back to 2010. The ACA destroyed the healthcare cost structure in the US. Believe it or not, before 2010, you could be uninsured and pay out of pocket at an urgent care or ER even when things went wrong and you wouldn’t go bankrupt. The only people that the ACA did any “good” for were insurance companies. Everyone else is worse off.

That’s not to mention that no one wanted it. Obama didn’t even campaign on it. It was forced down American’s throats and then upheld with a laughable Supreme Court decision.