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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: With more technology and innovation, why is it that healthcare costs have not become cheaper?
gpt
In the US?

The system is not optimized for cost efficiency. The system, like most systems in capitalism, is optimized to extract value from lower class people and funnel it to upper class people. The wealthy megacorporations that control US Healthcare have successfully defeated all attempts to reform the system, because an ad campaign is cheap in comparison to real competition, and they know all the buttons to push to make any reform sound like a loss of freedom as opposed to a creation of rights to access to care.