Originally Posted by
at6d
Mark Twain for the win. Anything distributed from a massive bureaucracy to the population via rationing is guaranteed to be highly inefficient, cost prohibitive, and imbedded in corruption.
What is our corporate for-profit healthcare system, other than exactly what you describe?
(I'm not in favor of a nationalized healthcare system. But we spend a staggering amount of our GDP on healthcare...twice the average of other developed countries. And our outcomes are middling at best. We are lucky to have excellent coverage at UAL, but we are a tiny minority. For most people, navigating the American healthcare system when you have a health issue is an infuriating, maddening, soul-destroying experience. That's assuming you can get coverage in the first place.