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... the underlying cost of medical care ...
is decided by the corporations that run the hospitals, pharmacies, and health insurance plans.
They collude to keep the price of care and drugs so high that one needs insurance to cover the costs, and then they raise the price of the insurance.
Insurance does not equal healthcare.