Why is health care so expensive in America? Insurance.
Consider this: Health insurance is a product so terrible that few Americans voluntarily buy it without receiving a sizable subsidy. "No one would design a system like the one we have. And no one did, " UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty wrote this month.
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