Reply #24: Single payer health care. [View All]

[PDJane]

And for the 2.8 trillion that Americans pay for health care every year, you could have one hell of a system that covers everyone.

The problem is a for-profit medical system. It's inefficient. By definition, it makes a lot of money on the misery of the populace, it's elitist, and it means that 1/3 of the money spent goes for paperwork. It means that people who have no idea what they're doing and who don't care for the patient make decisions. It means that malpractice insurance is heavily inflated, because it has to cover life-long health costs for a person who will never be able to get insurance again.

The other half of the equation is that taxation is not fully progressive and it rewards bad behaviour.

Of course, nationalizing the fed would go some way to fixing the problem, too.