Socialized Health Care in the USA

[Swiss Mercenary]

Which, is my approach to resolving the problem. Why is health care too expensive? Perhaps there is not enough supply.

Or, in America, there is too much supply. In any free market system, hospitals have an incentive to provide it, beyond necessary levels, if they want to retain customers. Right now, as a rule, they operate at under-capacity. And the American working class, through insurance, picks up the bill for medical devices that sit there, gathering dust, specialists that spend half the day picking their nose, and beds left empty.


Not to mention that a quarter of your healthcare costs have nothing to do with care. Its goes towards paperwork, administration, and to line the pockets of insurance companies. Strangely enough, countries with socalised healthcare spend less then a third of what americans do on paperwork and overhead. It seems the free market is a monumental failure at delivering best service for lowest cost, in that respect. (And service here means insurance, not actual treatment). When I can check in to a hospital without concerns that my bills will be left unpaid because my insurer is grasping at straws, to try to deny having to pay out, or without concerns that my 60% coverage will lead me to not being able to afford treatment... I think the service government insurance provides is leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.

And don't forget - that's just the icing on the cake. You also pay more for actual treatment, because of the points I've made in the first paragraph.