Healthcare is expensive and frustrating; government involvement is a big driver [Video]

The callous and even mocking reactions on social media to the cold-blooded murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson last week serve as further evidence that many Americans’ frustrations with the health insurance industry are boiling over.

But some experts say the government, not health insurance companies, deserves much of the blame.

“There is a very large reserve of untapped frustration with health insurance and the hassle and high cost of care, and this event sort of tapped into that accidentally,” says Dean Clancy, senior health policy fellow at Americans for Prosperity (AFP). “The murder is, of course, horrible, but it is good that policymakers are waking up to just how frustrated people are.”

In an interview with FOX Business, Clancy said a lot of the problems with the industry are a direct result of the 2010 Affordable Care Act, former President Obama’s signature legislation known as Obamacare, which Clancy said “turned the health insurance industry into basically a massive …