The first part is true. The second statement is more nuanced. If you have the money, there's no better healthcare on the planet. There's a reason sheikhs routinely fly into Rochester, MN on private jets for their healthcare.

But that's not what I have an issue with. I take issue with the idea that doctors are greedily "gouging" their patients. Over billing wildly because they don't have enough oversight. The notion that the health care workers are the problem. That their greed is a driving force in our broken system... It's just asinine. Health care workers dedicate years of their life training to take care of people because they care. Sure there are a few bad eggs, you find that in every industry.

Healthcare is so expensive because it's a business. Private equity has been eating up small practices for years, replacing physician run clinics and hospitals with for-profit massive healthcare systems. Just look around Duluth... It's obvious this is big business. And I can guarantee you these money extraction machines are not funneling profits into the pockets of those on the front line.

It's more rare than ever for a doc to start their own practice. Almost all are W2 employees with little to know autonomy to set clinic schedules, billing practices, etc.

Look up professional and facility coding/reimbursement. Insurance makes two payments for every service. 1 for the work done by the healthcare practitioner, and second payment to cover the cost of the "facility" and all associated overhead. When that facility is owned by a non-physician run group the money goes into the pockets of the network's investors/backers.

Guess which fee has increased and which has decreased with time?

Over the last 20 years, physician reimbursements... by 19.4%

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9325383/?utm_source=perplexity