Why the cost increase?

That is the problem, Insurance companies see their patrons not as patients but as business assets. Heathcare is not about anyone getting rich or poor. It's a necessity of life just like good water, and clean air. Some things should just be understood, in spite of them being used to control population growth on the down low.. 

We are at 7.9 billion people on this earth..  1960  3.031 billion

India 1.366 billion
China 1.398 billion
African Continent 1.26 billion
All of Eastern Europe 292.5 million
All of Western Europe196.850 million
Scandinavia 21. million
All of the Americas 1.002 billion

120 million people are born every year, 60 million die..

850 million are undernourished. Dad and his 4 girlfriends eats fine the 12 kids between them are starving to death. World hunger? Not really. HIV infects up to 1/4 of these starving countries population..

WHO feeds the world? North and South America...

When was the last time you ate reindeer? NEVER

When do you think any eastern European or Scandinavian country's population ate BEEF.. Yesterday...

Brazil's beef is 1/2 the cost of US beef. WHY? On the hoof US beef has doubled in price over the last 18 months on CA or Nevada cattle. (4 inoculations not the 7 or 11). Good beef. I quit eating it..

If you want home-made speakers why not try the Moabs?

What is this fascination people have with wanting to federalize everything in this country? The founding fathers wanted LIMITED government. They saw what failed around the world and they had a different idea for this nation.
I just don’t understand why people want more government involvement and control in their lives.
With every step we take in that direction, it is one step closer to socialism/communism.

Like someone said earlier, the government can’t run anything right.

We need to preserve our freedoms and liberties. Preserve every individual’s independence and not let our constitutional rights be taken from us or else that document will be a relic in a museum one day, showing kids what was once the law of the land generations ago.

@nonoise i dunno man. if you're asking me what i think about healthcare, my answer is "in america it's a nightmare unless you're rich. a basic level of care should be free for everybody, but it's not and that sucks." but i don't think we're going to solve all the worlds problems by arguing about them on a stereo forum. i was under the impression this thread would be about what everyone thinks of gear prices going up, not a drunk uncles facebook showdown

We are also FREE in Canada, or must i say WE WERE, some years ago, in spite of the last 2 idiots who ran the country, one with a rightist ideology, Harper, and the other, not less worst, with a leftist ideology,Trudeau...

For universal health care system, it is beyond my understanding that some people dont understand that health care are not there to create profits....It is beyond my understanding that people let the pharmaceutical globalist companies RUNNING the show in this pandemic...
It is beyond me but i know very well why people think that way....They think it is normal and right because they side with an ideology, right or left, like "objectivist" and "subjectivist", this ideology they pick for themselves in accord with their "taste" give them the political solutions ready made, like in audio matters by the way in his marketing practices......

Reading and studying is easy but also hard work, people prefer to be afraid and pointing fingers to a ready made scapegoat and let the hard books alone on the shelves and pick the "leftist" or "rightist" ideology without understanding how they ALWAYS be played now by globalist and transhumanist powers controlling the agendas....

I will add nothing, it is like in audio matters....Forget the marketing, use your hand and brain like our OP and enjoy high level S.Q. at low cost.... For sure we are though at the beginning only of an inflated or/and deflated economical crisis in the waiting, proportionate to our voluntary ignorance....Even in canada cherries price are rising....Wood price also and dont wait for the next year it will be worst...