You had very high deductible plans. So people had to pay for, you know, first dollar coverage of basic procedures, that type of thing. That's really the system we have to transition to. Our problem is a third party payer system, either the government pays or insurance companies pay. doctors, nurses, patients have no idea what anything costs. And so that's one of the reasons we have a skyrocketing cost. (02:48–02:55)
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