Plenty of blame to go around that’s for sure.
I would add the Fed-Gov to that list. The market distortions they caused such as Obama Care and price capping drugs has caused a significant rise in costs and lowered the quality of care. For instance Big Pharma had the cost of insulin ‘capped’ by Fed-Gov but was given billions of our tax dollars for the COVID vax. Also don’t forget the onerous FDA regulations that hamper the timely development and marketing of new drugs. When you can go to Mexico and pay for advanced treatments not yet available in the US something is wrong.
I would also add what Obama Care did to tuition costs because of the
Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010
These numbers are from a 2013 article:
"According to the Congressional Budget Office, $8.7 billion of the money collected in student loan interest payments actually goes to pay for ObamaCare. The CBO estimates that the interest rate on these loans could be reduced from 6.8 percent to only 5.3 percent were the funds not used to subsidize the healthcare reform law and other federal programs.
{mosads} The profits from student loans are divided as follows: $8.7 billion goes to pay for ObamaCare; $10.3 billion goes to pay down the federal debt; and $36 billion goes to Pell Scholarship grants.
The 16 million American students who now have student loans are paying for ObamaCare out of their meagre incomes just at the point when they graduate from college and need funds to start their lives, buy their first homes and begin a family."
I remember it hitting the MSM after ACA was pushed thru for a couple of days as "the funny accounting of ACA" but it was crickets afterwards and I have yet to see a single Republican bring that up whenever ACA is discussed - how is it possible they were not all over it even when biden was trying to forgive the loan crisis the democrats created!!
How was it not highlighted when Republicans were trying to turn back ACA, seems like it would've been a good thing to point out for the student votes.
All those dominos are toppling, and IMO we have yet to feel the full brunt of it.