Taxes?

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Hospitals arent run by the government, though ryoder.

This is a good thing. Expect it to get much worse if they do. The government here isn't exactly on the cutting edge of efficiency. Any business that considers money that they are not going to spend as a "reduction" even though they are actually spending more, wouldn't last a week in the real world. With government running the show, that $100 Advil will become a $2.00 Advil with $300 of administrative costs added on to the end of the bill. So then the price of the Advil would go down $98 "officially" and the $300 of administrative costs will get blurred behind different cost codes leading most people to believe the price went down. Then the next year at the budget meetings the price of the Advil will drop to $1.80 but those pesky administrative costs won't go up 20 cents, they will go up $50. But hey, the price of Advil dropped and so it will continue until the administrative costs are $1,000 and they decide" what the heck, just give the Advil away." And the uneducated masses will claim that the government did a great job because now they get free Advil!

I would rather pay $100 for the Advil than have the government give it away.