“The voluntary cooperation directly between patients and doctors in the marketplace free from government interference is the best healthcare system in the world”
Your doctor, if educated in the USA, only paid a fraction of the cost of his medical schooling. Governments, state and federal, paid more than he did.
Residencies are paid for by the federal government. A residency is where a medical school graduate learns to be an effective healer.
The malpractice coverage for the resident is paid for by the federal government.
Health care is more than doctors, it is also hospitals. Most hospital construction after WW2 until the 1970s was financed by the federal government. The hospitals repaid the construction cost by taking care of the poor.
Without Medicare, most hospitals would find themselves in bankruptcy.
Gee, why weren't most hospitals bankrupt before 1965 when LBJ signed unconstitutional Medicare and started America down Hayek's Road to Serfdom?
Your replies at 15 and 16 reflect government’s involvement in the financial aspect of modern medicine, whereas I think a good many FReepers are concerned first and foremost with the innumerable regulations imposed by the government.
This country’s entire governmental system was created with fewer words than 0bamacare’s regulations on what hemorrhoidal creams are covered under plans designed for senior citizens. Okay, I made that up, but it gets the point across that government being daddy to everyone makes us more “subjects” and less “citizens”. We could use a bit more liberty and freedom.