If you want the absolute best return in units of health care per dollar spent then the New Zealand system was the most efficient last time I looked.
If you want the absolute best return in units of health care per dollar spent then the New Zealand system was the most efficient last time I looked.
Any change in legislation will result in intense lobbying (ie politician funding) because so many vested interests benefit from the current structure.
As with many things in American politics, the issue isn't so much about what the objectively best thing to do is, but rather how that could happen with the current political process. There is some light at the end of the tunnel in pushing things to individual states. There is no need to come up with perfection - let 50 states do their own thing and see what works best.
"socialized medicine"
"communism"
"free private enterprise"
etc.