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may be true, but it’s also an excuse. We just can’t week ourself off the concept of medical care is a privilege (preventative care) and yet a very basic right only for the destitute (emergency care).
We can mobilize a military under the same landscape with a shared common goal. Medical needs are a shared common goal.
I'd agree we should do a manhattan project on healthcare reform. But private sector... our industry for example works fine as private sector.
We should also do comprehensive immigration reform so we can screen and admit the legal immigrants we need, ensure they get min wage, benefits, pay taxes, and have pathway to citizenship (if desired). Then criminalize border jumping with mandatory hard federal time.
While we're at it comprehensive reform of food safety rules (the euros get that right).
But be careful with the idea of "rights"...
A "right" is something that someone can take away from you, never something that someone must provide to you.
Breathing air is a right. Free speech is a right. Healthcare can never be a right because it doesn't grow on trees, someone has to actually do it for you.
The founders understood this intuitively, see the bill of rights for context.
Healthcare at best can be an "entitlement", guaranteed by law/policy, but practically speaking only as long as they can find someone else to pay for it.