While HOW we cover the cost of medical treatment is essential, we should not avoid the price inflation of medical providers  pumping up cost for profit.

I ask readers to just take about 2 minutes to read this short link.    It shows the extent, power and reach of Big Pharm to determine just what drugs are prescribed to patients, regardless of their source of financing.    These are pure marketing tools that apply to medical products as easily as it does to selling used cars.   

"Soon reps could find out exactly how many prescriptions any doctor was writing and exactly which drugs those prescriptions were for. All they had to do was turn on their laptops and download the data."   *And yes they have rewards to incentivize the physcian.

There are thousands of articles on the topic, this is just one, but it's a least a start to educating the public on why their medical cost are the highest in the world.

http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2010/11/drug-reps-doctors-prescribing.h