[HillaryBriss]

Ok. Fair points. There are other causes of high prices in certain domestic sectors.

For higher ed, I do think the people who work in the administrative layer are "credentialed" too. Maybe that's wrong. But these administrators and even their assistants frequently hold post-grad degrees. And it's true that the admin layer has ballooned.

Others point to federal educational loan guarantees as a big reason for higher prices in higher ed.

For health care, it's true that Doctors are behind the push to keep their own numbers limited through licensing requirements enforced by state laws. And Medicare is not allowed to reimburse patient care provided by MDs in other countries where costs are lower and systems are more efficient. I believe domestic doctors are helping to keep that constraint in place.

But, yes, sure, there's also big pharma, big hospital corporations and big medical device manufacturing -- all of which appear to have captured their governmental regulatory agencies.

The main theme seems to be that a system of laws creates and maintains an expensive domestic market for goods and services with well paid domestic workers.