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I don't quite understand how the american system works but on face value (possibly hopelessly wrong) it seems like obamacare is some sort of subsidised health insurance that still makes heavy use of expensive private health care with incredibly inflated prices which would dictate high insurance costs that need to be subsidised to be more reasonable.

Surely a different approach is needed where health care is more reasonably priced. I don't know how the police, education and other services are run but assume they are government owned and run in some instances.

Perhaps somewhere in the US publicly owned health care should be tested and perfected before rolling out nation wide even if that process takes 20 years at least future americans even poor ones will have access to good health care.

I have to say I find it offensive that children don't have access to free health care. I can understand more telling adults that they have to organise their own health care but not children. Maybe that is where public healthcare should start. Assuming there isn't free health care for children already, I've not done the research.