It's more or less implemented for medical care in most other first-world countries and it seems to work better than ours* in all of them.
I lived in Canada for three years, and growing up in a fairly conservative area in the US, I was prepared for the worst - six-month wait times for life-saving procedures, etc. What I saw was more like Star Trek - people who needed medical care went to a clinic or hospital and got it, and they didn't have to worry about being bankrupted in the process.
After I moved back to the US, I got to see what it was like for most people - delaying or never getting critical procedures done, people with teeth rotting in their heads because they can't afford to go to the dentist, almost everyone 1 unexpected medical bill away from permanent financial ruin. Our system is objectively bad, and we deserve to feel bad for sticking with it.
You can cite all the market theory you want, but the US is a perfect empirical example of why those theories are wrong.
* Except for the tiny minority of the ultra-wealthy who can afford to pay any price for health care.
I lived in Canada for three years, and growing up in a fairly conservative area in the US, I was prepared for the worst - six-month wait times for life-saving procedures, etc. What I saw was more like Star Trek - people who needed medical care went to a clinic or hospital and got it, and they didn't have to worry about being bankrupted in the process.
After I moved back to the US, I got to see what it was like for most people - delaying or never getting critical procedures done, people with teeth rotting in their heads because they can't afford to go to the dentist, almost everyone 1 unexpected medical bill away from permanent financial ruin. Our system is objectively bad, and we deserve to feel bad for sticking with it.
You can cite all the market theory you want, but the US is a perfect empirical example of why those theories are wrong.
* Except for the tiny minority of the ultra-wealthy who can afford to pay any price for health care.