Gov't subsidies to the medical industry are 300x that of oil industry subsidies ($1.2 trillion vs. $4 billion per year). Ever since this began in the '60s, the medical industry has quadrupled in size as a portion of the entire U.S. economy, and costs have skyrocketed. Myopic thinkers say gov't has bargained for cheaper healthcare due to the large numbers of Medicare and Medicaid patients. But the holistic reality is caregivers merely pass the extra real costs onto private insured, especially to individuals (which drives them off insurance). The real problem is total healthcare costs have exploded since both public and private insurance business models act as subsid...