> For profit healthcare in America is devouring its people and economy, full stop. We can either have a society where half a million people go bankrupt from medical debt each year, thousands die from treatable illnesses or lack of access to medicines, while hospital CEOS and insurance execs walk away with millions, or we can have one that excises their parasitism like the rest of the developed world figured out was necessary decades ago.

The majority of the world still has, to my knowledge, for-profit health care: Britain, Germany, France, Switzerland , Sweden and Italy all have at least some form of private health care.

The United States definitely have a problem with health care prices. It doesn't appear from where I sit to be an issue with individual bad actors (although of course they do exist) but rather structural. In part, the well-intended federal and state attempts to improve things have backfired — as they tend to do — and made things even more expensive (which reminds me of federal student loans, another instance of well-meaning attempts to help the lesser-off which somehow seem to benefit the upper middle classes most of all; cf. also federally-subsidised mortgages).