>the US Healthcare system is second to none in the world
77th or so maybe to some, but definitely not second to anything, sure.
> The actual CARE people in the US get is the best in the world,
No, it's not consistently. The care a very small fraction get is, perhaps. But even for most of the people who get care it's not.
> It is fucking expensive and has issues with how we go about paying for it largely do to government regulations and interference in the market place
The places that provide equal or better outcomes at far lower prices (both per GDP and per capita) don't have less-regulated markets. So, no, I don't think you've identified the actual problem correctly, though I get that that's always going to be the explanation offered by those dogmatically devoted to the religion of laissez-faire.
I Honestly do hope the US does go Single Payer, we will see health care innovation and advancement stop, no new drugs, no new procedures, etc as almost 100% of that is funded by the very people you despise, the American people.
>The care a very small fraction gets is, perhaps. But even for most of the people who get the care it's not.
that is simply not true, most of the studies, rankings all factor in "access" due to price, if you remove price as a factor then there is no better system in the world
>>The places that provide equal or better outcomes at far lower prices (both per GDP and per capita) don't have less-regulated markets. So, no, I don't think you've identified the actual problem correctly,
I have, we have the worst of both systems. We have all the regulations of a Government-run system without the Price controls.
Single-Payer would be cheaper than our current model, it would also provide worse care.
The free market would be the best but I fear that ship has sailed, the world will need to destroy all innovation and collapse the health systems everywhere before anyone will want to try Free market again
Socialism always fails, the one thing keeping every other nations socialist system working is the American system, we pick up the slack, (just like in defense)
That is one of the reasons I become more and more isolationist every year.
> that is simply not true, most of the studies, rankings all factor in "access" due to price
That's because access due to price affects what care people actually get from the system.
> if you remove price as a factor then there is no better system in the world
No, even if you don't consider how ludicrously expensive the US healthcare system is, the outcomes it produces aren't exceptional.
Now, if you mean if you remove the actual effect price has on care the US system would be great, sure, but that's different than removing separate consideration of price as a factor. And impossible, as well.
77th or so maybe to some, but definitely not second to anything, sure.
> The actual CARE people in the US get is the best in the world,
No, it's not consistently. The care a very small fraction get is, perhaps. But even for most of the people who get care it's not.
> It is fucking expensive and has issues with how we go about paying for it largely do to government regulations and interference in the market place
The places that provide equal or better outcomes at far lower prices (both per GDP and per capita) don't have less-regulated markets. So, no, I don't think you've identified the actual problem correctly, though I get that that's always going to be the explanation offered by those dogmatically devoted to the religion of laissez-faire.