The real enemy here is the regulatory capture of the health industry preventing competition.

$3,000 a night for a hospital bed, $350,000 a year on average for a doctor, and double profits being made by pharma and medical devices companies. Abolish the patent system, allow unlimited new doctors to train instead of a specific number of annual seats, and reduce the regulations on building and operating hospitals and prices will fall.

Currently we give 27% of US GDP to doctors and hospitals.

> The real enemy here is the regulatory capture of the health industry preventing competition.

Yeah, the enemy is the industry players, who we are talking about. The industry players are the ones who institute the regulations that have captured the industry, and they don't cease to exist after deregulation. Unless your deregulation proposal also includes regulation of their ability to expand, you're just giving them more power to do regulatory capture.

They get even richer by creating new hospitals that now cost less to build and hiring physicians (and PAs, NPs, RNs, and so on) whom they can now pay at lower rates.

And then, because they have been lobbying this whole time (unless deregulation means regulating lobbying?) they have just done reg 2.0... regulatory capture but it uses AJAX

People are greedy in every industry. In industries without regulation, high levels of competition keeps prices low and quality high. Once we deregulate, entrepreneurs like me will start health care companies to compete with the old players, and we can bury them or force them to vastly improve their services and reduce prices.