Voluntary mutual aid associations >>government "solution"

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Prices wouldn't be comparable today I think.[lists reasons why health care is too exspensive now]

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They were saying the same thing back then...
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Such low fees, many doctors charged, were bankrupting the medical profession.

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Of course, then it was just fear mongering from doctors who wanted to use force to drive their salaries up.

The article states that the dues for healthcare were about equal to one day's wages for a whole year. Even if today it would closer to three times that it's still incredibly cheaper then health care is currently.

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I don't see how it could still be so little. The services medecine provide now, compared to the turn of last century, have increased at a rate far, far greater than inflation. Getting an MRI isn't cheap - no surprise, because BUILDING an MRI isn't cheap. I'd expect that sort of problem to be pretty endemic, no pun intended. Ditto malpractice insurance, which I'm afraid is here to stay as well.