I came from combo state provided, state paid healthcare system. The latter maybe ok, but never again to state provided. The service was/is horrible and health care providers are often complaining that they are angry their patients are receiving substandard care because the politicians are deciding procedure (via funding)
This doesn't solve the Taxi medallion system that physicians lobbied for to keep the supply of physicians scarce.
It doesn’t because it isn’t meant to. That’s a separate problem that can be tackled on its own merits.
Agreed
Just reliable and consistent pricing would go a long way. Right now they are doing everything they can to make the system as opaque and complex as possible. It’s an elaborate system with traps designed to extract money from the patient.
Unicorns and lollipops available on every street corner, free to all.
If every other developed nation was able to provide unicorns and lollipops to its citizens regardless of their ability to pay, and the United States couldn't I would also be asking for Universal unicorns and lollipops.
Except that the majority of the unicorns are sick, and the majority of the lollipops have been licked by someone else. And when people point out that while we don't have them on every corner for free, at least what we do have isn't like that, they're ignored or called heartless.