There are other countries doing a better job at it.
Your point about insurance companies is huge. In the US they are like the mafia. You have to loose so they win. There goes a big chunk of the medical dollar to increasingly greedy insurance companies. Pharmaceutical companies are beating the crap out of us charging the highest prices in the world. The third evil that is literally killing us is lawyers getting a big piece of the medical dollar. Countries with national health care don't have such problems.
Your point about insurance companies is huge. In the US they are like the mafia. You have to loose so they win. There goes a big chunk of the medical dollar to increasingly greedy insurance companies. Pharmaceutical companies are beating the crap out of us charging the highest prices in the world. The third evil that is literally killing us is lawyers getting a big piece of the medical dollar. Countries with national health care don't have such problems.
i never said i was against universal health care systems, on the contrary. just has to be non profit and run well with regulators watching out for any scamming and price hikes that are not justified by simple maths.
my point was that it seems to be looked at as a left wing thing in the US. not that it's a bad thing. free markets are great, but not for common resources, or things like water, air, electricity and yes health care insurance. let the medical professionals work for money, but not the insurance companies, they need to be non profit and run with open books.
we saw in the eu what happens when you privatize water, they run everything down, no maintenance is done, prices are raised and standards go down.