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Time and sweat are worth something. Germany many have more doctors per capita it's the quality that I'm worried about. The best and brightest wouldn't be the brightest if they didn't think about making a living long term. And no thanks on the loan forgiveness. I don't want to pay for my neighbor's health care so I sure don't want to pay for his education. I don't want to pay more than I already do, via higher taxes, for someone else to get an education.

How about this: you pay for your education and the market decides what you can make when you get done. Brain surgeons are going to and SHOULD make more than a store clerk or school teacher. Get government and 3rd party payers out of it. Have insurance for catastrophic and personal responsibility for the rest. Government messed up the system in the first place (info that is glaringly missing from this article) why turn to them to "fix" it?!

A lot of the points you adress are actually answered in the opening post. And here's my argument: One of the main reasons for health care is that most governments, also that of the US, will not leave people to die in the street. They will offer an emergency service. But it is pretty easy to calculate that if you only offer help in the direst of circumstances, people who can not pay will all come in these circumstances, and treating them wll be much, much more expensive.

Also, the market will decide what you can earn. How do you think that is not the case in Germany?