As health carereform movesforward,manyAmericansarenot aware of the
largecosts incurred the government becausemanytimesthesecostsare by
contingent upon multiple factorssuch as the patients income,theservice,
health careinsuranceand plans. "The percentage of nationalincomethat is
absorbed healthcarehasgrownover by thepast half-century, from 5% in 1960
to in 18% 2017, reducing what is availableforanything elsefrom95% 1960 in
to 82%today. The costs of health care contribute the to long-termstagnation in
wages; to fewergood jobs,especially forlesseducated workers;and rising to
income inequality"(Deaton & Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism,
2020).For a patient, thecost considered in theirout of pocket pay, not
factoring what theinstitutionpays fortheequipment in or the amount for
