Same thing with healthcare and college tuition. If you mandate a payment for it, they’re going to ask for more because everyone’s using ‘magic money’ to pay for it. If they really wanted to see healthcare and education costs drop, remove regulations and guaranteed free funding for it. Then there’d be nobody that would be willing to pay for it at the current prices because it’s not worth that much, so the price goes down.

You go to a GP for 15 minutes, he plugs what you said into their WebMD, then they bill insurance for thousands. Even super cheap meds like thyroid meds that abroad cost pennies on the dollar get billed to insurance for $400 when they cost $3 to make and have been generic for years.