You’re more likely to die of prostate cancer in the UK, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Ireland, Switzerland, France ,Finland, Canada, and Germany than you are in the United States so explain how socialized medicine saves lives.
For the cost estimates of the health care plan in place the USA could add a wing to every VA administration hospital and dedicate it to medical care for the poor. We could open 50 more medical schools and train more MDs. But. No. We have to get more administrators and IRS agents and lawyers to make sure the populace doesn't break the arcane and convoluted mess they dumped on us. The chronically ill and terminal will get death counsel visits but experimental and heroic measures will be used on Mickey Mantles and Ted Kennedys and such. This guy in the editorial has no game. He would be dead no matter what plan we choose.