Good post.. One thing occured to me reading it as well. If we are going to provide health care for hundreds of millions of third worlders, I sure as hell don’t want to be paying it in our system.
It probably costs 1/20th or less to give health care in most third world nations then in America. When we give medical care here, we have to also pay for monopolists like the ama, the health bureaucrats, insurance company profits, and lawyers like john edwards to be worth tens of millions.
The AMA is a legal cartel. Much of what physicians do can be done cheaply by by nurses, nurse practitioners. The AMA medical “cartel” controls (limits) supply, driving up prices. There is a whole history of protectionism behind the AMA, despite what they say about their organization.
Medical licensure restrictions (protections) are a hot topic among economists — they OPPOSE it, it’s bad for consumers. They want more competition in services, greater supply of different types of services from minor needs (done cheaply in a clinic at Walmart, for example) up to more serious health issues which truly require specialists with more advanced training.
Having AMA’s cartel is great for socialists like Hillary, who can point to the “shortage” and the “high prices, and then call for us to move AWAY from the actual solution - increased competition & a wider array of services & choices - and toward a top-down, anti-competitive, very costly monopoly system (read: government run).