Currently the United States spends 20% of its GDP on healthcare. 15% of that spending is to pay doctors and nurses. The remaining 85% of healthcare spending funds a bloated bureaucracy with numerous middlemen, markups and waste. The true cost of services is nowhere near this amount.
The administrative bureaucracy in medicine has served to separate physician from patient. Nowhere is this worse than in rural areas.
Most people cannot afford regular healthcare. Prices are inflated and plans unreasonable. Do not ask anyone in government about this as they all have Cadillac taxpayer funded plans.
The remedies afforded to most Americans who are wronged by major corporations are not afforded to those of us unfortunate enough to be associated with US healthcare. Congress has ensured that healthcare organizations (not doctors) are exempt from price fixing regulations, anti-kickback statutes and anti-trust regulations.
The organizations that pretend to represent doctors and patients (AMA etc) have long since been bought by Big Pharma and other entrenched interests (much like most of Congress). They serve as a further tool of oppression.
With 20% of GDP, there is no financial reason every American cannot have a primary care doctor and elemental healthcare. Other countries do more with less. We need to remove the middlemen, and the enablement of these middlemen by Congress.