American Healthcare In Crisis

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I know patriotic Americans will hate this answer, but a fully government managed healthcare system could expel the profit motive. It might even be possible to have medical care "free at the point of treatment".

No it won't!

Did you ever see the movie Office Space?  It was a comedy, but the underpinning theme was the notion of incremental increases across a massive data set, namely a few "fractions of a cent across thousands of transactions".  Well, this is the exact same way politicians view taxes!  They think a seemingly small incremental increase across a massive data set (i.e. us taxpayers) will allow them to fix anything.  Crooked big Pharma and insurance companies absolutely LOVE this approach.

Couple the above concept with the notion of ..."We're the Government, and we're here to help you!" (aka...we're gonna' fuck everything up fifty times worse than you could have EVER imagined!)...and you have an award winning recipe for the most incomprehensibly fucked up, non-functional and colossally inefficient as well as expensive system imaginable!

Never, and I mean NEVER, trust the 'government' to "fix" anything, they'll only fuck it up 10x worse!!!!

I can only repeat my previous answer; it has been made to work in other countries, who are happy with the way it works.

Name one!

Canada? (where you have to wait 2 years to get treated for something which is going to kill you in 6 months?)

UK?  (where you have to wait 6 months to see a doctor...to even find out what's wrong with you?)

Russia?

France?

Antarctica?

Mars?

The other half of my previous answer was that the populations living under those systems prefer them, whatever flaws they might find. Having had experience of the system, they find it the lesser evil, anyway. I'm not aware of any polls or political movements demanding that people should be allowed to pay more money.

So, in a nutshell, you don't really have an answer to my question then, correct?

That, or you agree with me.

People who live in a cardboard box probably prefer them too, but I sure as hell don't want to live in a cardboard box, so I don't really give a flying 'foo-fah' what they prefer.  That is my point.