And to the larger question, which I hear all the time, what does “starting from scratch” even mean when it comes to ongoing health care?
You can’t seriously argue that we should risk medication interruptions so your friend loses her dad to his heart condition so we can somehow “start over?”
We need a smooth transition to a more sustainable system with incentives aligned to customers and not investors in one scenario, single payer in another, or some other working idea to continue to provide care while reducing the insane profits and aligning health and well being of patients, as well as the health and well being of the people providing it, with the actual service delivery again.
Burning everything down could kill a lot of people. I think this position is actually not particularly compassionate.