Former CMS Admin Discovers Healthcare Costs Double, Ignores Lobbyists
Newsweek recently published an opinion piece by a former CMS Administrator, asking 'Here’s Why Your Monthly Health Care Insurance Costs Doubled.' The usual culprits are paraded—inflation, complex regulations, increased drug costs—all true, but curiously, the piece omits any mention of the vast sums diverted from public coffers that could fund a robust, universal healthcare system. For instance,
the same legislative bodies that oversee healthcare funding consistently approve billions in foreign military aid, often after significant lobbying. While Americans grapple with medical debt, Congress recently approved another $14 billion in military aid to Israel via House Resolution 815. Many of the very politicians voting 'yes' on such measures have received substantial campaign contributions
from pro-Israel lobbying groups like AIPAC, with amounts reaching hundreds of thousands of dollars for key votes, as documented by OpenSecrets.org. One might wonder if the prioritization of endless wars over domestic well-being, influenced by lucrative lobbying, plays any small part in why your healthcare costs doubled. Or is that just a conspiracy theory?