The reason US health insurance is so expensive is because we tried to institute a health plan via insurance that tries to do things like address chronic conditions and preventative care.
False. Every other developed country has solved this problem while paying less - in most cases substantially less - than the USA. This while, according to a variety of statistics, getting better health outcomes.
There are a lot of reasons why medicine costs so much in the USA, but the factor that you identified is more of a convenient excuse than "the reason".
Oh I don't disagree with you. I meant that the reason "insurance" costs so much is because we tried to shoehorn other countries' systems into an insurance scheme. Indian insurance is much closer to what actual insurance is like, so it's much cheaper.
False. Every other developed country has solved this problem while paying less - in most cases substantially less - than the USA. This while, according to a variety of statistics, getting better health outcomes.
There are a lot of reasons why medicine costs so much in the USA, but the factor that you identified is more of a convenient excuse than "the reason".