I agree, but am convinced that medical care is so in the toilet because most of them are bankrolled via Medicare and Medicaid. If you look at the prices, things didn't skyrocket until the 70s when the government destroyed medical competition via these programs. Couple that with States enforcing Certificate of Need laws, which create provider monopolies, and the insurance companies dictating both pricing and procedures, the consumer has no true power, advocacy, or control. The doctors are only problems because the State has conditioned them to be. Fix the State, you fix the root problem