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As I like to say about England's NHS: It's free but you'll die waiting.

I mean, fifteen years of Tory rule does that. Looks like it'll finally come to an end soon.

The UK has slightly higher life expectancy than the US, at less than half the cost (and yes, that's including taxes; https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm). People die waiting here, too; they're just bankrupt as a bonus.

And the US you'll die homeless. At least if I die waiting on the NHS, I'm at home.

> The solution is to socialize it.

Yes a bunch of countries like Singapore, Switzerland, Netherlands didn't socialize it? And their systems seem to work pretty good?

- Singapore has Medisave, which is mandatory and strictly regulated.

- Insurers in Switzerland are obligated to insure everyone and can't make a profit on the base plan.

- Netherlands has similar requirement for cheap (and subsidized) mandatory insurance plans.

None of those are “socialized” which would be the government running the healthcare system.

Idealism doesnt help. You need to kill the corruption. ~60% of healthcare spending is already through the government.

You are just codifying the corruption.