> Except for the socialized medicine.
The system works well INCLUDING the socialized medicine. This is because our economy and infrastructures have been custom-designed to include universal access to medicine as a spending priority.
You still end up paying for somebody else’s accident in the US: you just fool yourselves into thinking you don’t. Where did the four million dollars compensation for the clumsy cop come from? The tooth fairy?
If it came from the gummint you paid for it in taxes. If it came from an insurance company you paid for it in premiums. If it comes from a company’s bottom-line profit you pay for it in higher prices. No matter where it comes from you pay for it.
The only difference is, socialized medicine is a tad more transparent and just possibly more efficient.
Sorry; I would like to see less government involved in health care, not more. And I’m saying this as an RN who has to comply with stupid regs because of Medicare and Medicaid.
More government; less freedom