Why the U.S. pays more for health care than the rest of the world

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Snoopy said:

Zkuq said:
Capitalism is great, no? Except when it isn't of course.

The government has way too much interference in our health care. It basically is socialism. 

It is involved in all the wrong places.

 

Republicans prevent the national program from developping further into something beneficial, and democrats refuse to give up on a dysfunctional system.

 

Both convinced that more involvment is necessarily going to make things worse/better, respectively.

 

 

Making the government the sole client in healthcare helps regulate a supply/demand curve which is generally moment to moment heavily skewed towards the producer.

 

Instead, the US decided to force everyone to buy their insurance privately, which does the exact contrary.