Health Care Spending: Why Is America Soooooooo Stupid?

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13. Mexico's per capita spending $956.2

Sure, everyone wants a deal... but sometimes the way to lower costs is to consolidate and standardize to reduce wasteful overhead. The question is why, with so much US GDP going into health care... stressing consumers, employers, and government programs... why WE can't follow a rational course. Part of the problem is, of course... companies don't want to give up their profit gravy train... and the GOP wants to milk government for private profit and possibly protect their "brand" as being for small government... or being more cynical that the GOP would rather piss away hundreds of billions on debt interest rather than have that money benefit the American people. But I'd argue that the GOP has the power to be irrational because of our defective electoral and political systems which gives power to minorities to block popular legislation. Election 2000 and 2016 prove we can't get a president the People want... and if my numbers are correct Dem Senators represent 33 million more Americans than the GOP, yet the GOP controls the Senate.