One of THE central issues in our health care system is the fact that it's a consumer product.
Rather than a public good.
Health care is essential for all of us, whether or not all of us realize that truth. But since so much of our health care system is privatized and for-profit, those in control of this necessity that is in practice, a consumer product - insurers, providers, pharmaceutical companies -
can charge our country's aging, increasingly unhealthy population whatever they want. Because if given the choice between financial bankruptcy and not dying (or saving the lives of family members), what do you think most people will choose?
Of course, there's always the "go to the emergency room without insurance" option. Yeah, that never cost anyone anything 
And neither does financial bankruptcy or higher premiums for people who can at the very least, afford some form of health insurance. 
It'd be like if drinking water were mostly privatized - shh, let's not give them any ideas. Too late? 
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