Because then anyone who gets unlucky dies from not being able to afford the exorbitant prices of catastrophic health care, which will never go down enough to be "affordable" to anyone who isn't rich.
We've had medical technology for longer than we've had either of those, and health care has gotten more expensive, not less. What does the price of commodity items have to do with the price of life saving services?
That's my point! Because we put so much effort into "fixing" healthcare we drive the price up instead of when we leave commodities like technology largely alone and happily watch the prices go down.
