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There is, in the final analysis, only one fundamental reason why it ISN'T free.
The parasites of the HMO/Health Insurance Industry are preventing reforms which would squeeze them out, like pus from a zit. The Health Insurance industry consumes between 15-20% of premium costs in overhead (salaries of CEOs of biig HMO/HI companies are in the hundreds of MILLIONS). That's money that is NOT, obviously, going to securing treatment for ill peoples' diseases.
Health insurance in private hands is and always has been an invit-gegen-ation for abuse. The ends of Insurance contra health care are simply incommensurable. You can't make a profit making people well. That costs money, often a LOT of money. Monthly, single-dose treatment with one, single anti-cancer drug, Avastin, can cost $110 THOUSAND a year. So, a certain number of insureds either have to die sick, or not be covered in the first place for the insurers to make a buck.
Genentech just got a ruling allowing them to more than triple their annual sales of Avastin, by the way, even though the efficacy of the drug in many cases has been dubious at best. Up to maybe as much as $3 BILLION next year.
People will pay just about anything for life...
Ah, the magic of the market-place.
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