Getting far afield here, but... there's something uniquely broken about the financial model of the US system. Pretty much every industrialized nation in the world pays about half as much per capita as the US does for its health care, and pretty much all of them provide universal coverage. And this is everyone, from purely socialist systems to mostly private systems.
Which is why I have issues with both the right-wing insistence that nothing is wrong with ours that a little more free market can't cure, and the left-wing insistence that only a purely socialist single payer system will provide financial responsibility and social justice.
Which is why I have issues with both the right-wing insistence that nothing is wrong with ours that a little more free market can't cure, and the left-wing insistence that only a purely socialist single payer system will provide financial responsibility and social justice.