The French have a hybrid system with both public and private facilities and services. It’s a complicated system and in recent years they’ve had problems controlling costs but for the most part it works. A market based fully private system is obviously the superior choice but if the United States is going to go down the road of socialist healthcare then something like the French system would probably be the least bad approach. The worst would be an English style fully public single payer system.
It really is a shame that we can’t have a healthcare system that’s consistent with our founding principles, but that’s what happens when the left spends the better part of a century marching through your institutions.
Very well put and I am afraid you are correct.
The French (I believe the German system is similar!) would be the least bad of all the “politically possible” choices.
We had one up until the passage of Medicare in the late fifties early sixties. Since then pricing and what is considered standard care has been driven by govt regulations. Congress passes more and more bills inflicting more and more regulations