US health system needs competition more than socialism [1].
[1] https://mises.org/blog/lack-epipen-competitors-fdas-fault
EDIT: A really good comment from link above.
Mark S - https://mises.org/blog/lack-epipen-competitors-fdas-fault#co...
The culprit in virtually all health care or drug price gouging outrages is insurance and "free" taxpayer money. Americans want someone else to pay for their health care -- the insurance pool, Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, the hospital (if they are indigent). Drug makers know that someone else (not the patient) is paying for the drug, that payee has no economic incentive to minimize costs, and so drug makers do not care or have an economic incentive to control their costs or limit their prices. Somebody else is paying, so who care what the drug costs. Insurance companies pass costs along in the form of escalating premiums, so they have no incentive to control costs (especially in the Obamacare environment where health insurance providers are exiting the market leaving the remaining firms with a monopoly); giverment health programs have virtually unlimited access to taxpayer money (and, in the end, money printed by the Fed), so they have no incentive to control costs; health care providers also know that the patient is not paying the bill, so they have no incentive to prescribe or investigate more afforadable alternatives.
People never ask "So, what does this drug/treatment cost?" but rather "Do you accept my insurance?"