The US has a good, but expensive healthcare system. Minor reforms would fix much of this, but Democrats are using expense as lever to promote a socialized take-over of what is left of the private system in the US.
This will have two immediate effects: Shockingly higher taxes, and heavy handed rationing and cutbacks. No solution they have proposed can handle things any differently.
I keep hearing this, but don't really believe it. What is the appropriate increase in price for a 'good' system, over a not-so-good British-NHS-like system?
A lot of the cost structure for the bills to individuals is because of 1) a flawed tort system, and 2) a flawed charity care system and 3) the failure of the HMO/Insurance industry to show medical savings commensurate with their administrative costs. I can avoid 3), but no matter how I choose to pay for my health care, I'm saddled with the costs for 1) and 2), which are political problems, not health care delivery problems.