Take a good look at that chart.
You could extend it back a few more decades, and it would look even worse.
During all that time, the Republicans offered up NOTHING.
As health care costs outpaced worker's wages and inflation for DECADES, a larger and larger percentage of the population was priced out of the health insurance market over that time.
During all of those decades, Democrats said they would solve the problem with "socialized medicine". That's what it was called decades ago. Now the popular term is "single payer health care".
So the Democrats were telegraphing ALL THAT TIME exactly what they would do if they ever got the chance.
Still, the Republicans did NOTHING.
This is what has convinced me that the Republican Party sold us all down the river to socialize medicine decades ago. Their consent by silence is the dead giveaway.
This was further confirmed by the 60 repeals of ObamaCare during Obama's regime. The GOP knew Obama would veto any repeal which happened to make it to his desk.
During all those years, I told the pseudocon tards that the GOP repeals were "theater for the rubes". But they kept falling for the hoax over and over and over. They never tired of it, and came in their shorts every time.
Then the GOP got full power, and suddenly the repeal of ObamaCare dropped dead in its tracks.
TA-DAAAAAAA! Theater for the rubes confirmed!