>In modern America, healthcare is so expensive that very few can afford it.
Its not only in America. I can't think of a single country where people actually pay for their healthcare and don't get reimbursed or the government pays for it.
>It's so expensive, that you need insurance, which is almost gambling to afford anything.
Don't see how that is "gambling", but insurances exist everywhere, even in countries with "universal healthcare".
>Instead of dealing with the insane prices hospitals are charging, let's crack down on the people who are paying the bills (insurance companies).
Well because like some other people mentioned, when Hospitals can charge whatever they want and it's the state that pays the bill they just keep asking. Is the same as gor college.
>I had a minor emergency that required an ER visit. The bill was over $10,000. I only had to pat $1,800 after insurance for very little care from a nurse.
This sounds about right in the mainland. I can't believe people actually leave here and go get cucked in there.
>So, I can't get an answer, why are we talking about insurance reform and the free market, when every doctor I know over 40 is literally in the 1%?
Nobody with at least two neurons in the brain would suggest that just magically eliminating insurers and having the government manage the budget like the NHS will fix things. If something it might make fraud, waste and abuse more rampant.
>Yes, they should be paid well, but at what point are people going to see that hospitals are literally gouging people under duress.
But Its not hospitals, physicians, nurses and other health aides get payed a lot in the US. Hospital managers (that are not clinicians) usually get paid very little.
>TL:DR: Hospitals are ripping people off, paying themselves like kings, and somehow Aetna is the problem?
Insurers are not the problem, the problem is regulation. The goverment regulates health too much insurers included.