"Universal Care" is a vicious spiral of rising costs. When everything from cancer to a hangnail is covered by insurance, hospitals can charge the insurance company anything they want for the care. And the insurance company in turn can charge everybody whatever they want to pay for the inflated care costs, plus their own costs, plus a profit.
That how an aspirin ends up costing $25 in the hospital, and you pay $1000 a month to get it "free."
We constantly equate "medical insurance" with "medical care" and the two are NOT the same.
Great post.
