@threalist i tell this story too often but american healthcare used to be cheap, some homeopaths wanted to start making voluntary metaregulators, and rockefeller came by and zipped it all up as a government monopoly instead. plus had everyone thrown out that he wasn't invested in.

lot of work also by intellectual yet idiot 'doctors' who just wanted line go up, going after all the mechanisms that was making it hard for them to overcharge people (see: lodge practice, the prevalence of health co-ops)