Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing Us | TIME.com

Stephen Brill wrote a cover story for Time exposing the parasitic economic practices behind the Healthcare Industry. This article reveals the truth behind the Healthcare Industry's 75% profit margin.

The healthcare industry does not abide by supply on demand because the customer is taken out of the negotiation. The ambulance driver decides the hospital, the nurses and doctors decide the equipment and the medicine and they handle the entire thing with a car mechanic's approach of finding extra problems that don't really exist. The "charge-master" sets the price for everything, and suddenly a 2-dollar hospital gown becomes 200 dollars but your insurance company gets a discount so it's only 100 dollars, you pay a deductible and think you got a good deal. Ambulance companies alone rake in more money than Hollywood.

Like every other industrial parasite growing in the united states, this is not a problem singularly regarding insurance companies. Every single health related industry also rakes in astounding profits (but not the people doing the actual jobs like doctors and hospital staff). The entire industry uses the health insurance companies as a vehicle to suck the funds out of the general population at a high enough level they don't notice the burden. Then the poor who don't have health insurance end up going bankrupt.