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Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by merpnderp on Thursday February 06, 2020 @11:52AM (#22257666)
Peak? This is the most heavily regulated market in the US, and fully 40% of all medical spending is from federal, state, and local governments.

This is peak political corruption.

Re:Your New Medical Credit Score Could Deny You Care by unishark on Thursday February 06, 2020 @01:18PM (#22258586)
I have seen estimates that as much as two thirds of healthcare spending actually traces back to the govt when you count subsidies too. It is a mostly-socialized system at this point.

And of course even where the govt is not funding the product, they are stipulating in detail what it must include. E.g. insurance must include a long list of things from mental health care to nicotine patches, forcing people to go through their insurance rather than through a market where they would negotiate prices.