Subsidized health care has been around since rocks cooled. But with medical care getting ever more efficacious, and those efficacious treatments getting ever more expensive, something has to crack.
At present rates of increase, the cost of medical services in an hundred years, will cost more than the GNP. Just a thought.
The odd thing is, the costs are out of line with the actual costs.
Half of what we get in health care we could get from half-trained monkeys, but the health "profession" tightly controls the availability of doctors, and artificially drives up the cost of entry which forces large debt on the profession which must then be recovered with huge fees. Then there's hundreds of thousands in malpractice insurance.
Then there is the employer insurance companies, that through sheer size force doctors to offer cheap rates to their people, which drives up costs for the uninsured.
I had thosands of dollars of "medical care" this past summer, but mostly it was just human beings, like me, poking and prodding me. Almost NOTHING was a consumable item. The overhead and waste costs are rediculous.
But also notice - that when the government pays for health care, it causes the cost for everyone else to go up.