Eleven months ago, COVID-19 vaccines were rolling out in Mesa County with lines stretching around the block and all the way into spring but, over the course of the year,
The American health-care system is vastly more expensive than any other countryâs, but our results are not vastly better.
The Affordable Care Act attempted to begin untangling the factors that contribute to this untenable situation. While it certainly has improved things like access to care and coverage of pre-existing conditions, the cost of care is still so high that more government intervention routinely pops up as the only remaining solution. Think âBernieCareâ or a public health insurance option.
The health-care conundrum is too big to point at any single contributor, but hospitals routinely fight perceptions, if not outright evidence, of charging too much â especially to the privately insured.