You can’t possibly be inferring the UK has better healthcare then the US? We have lower life expectancy because we have an obesity epidemic. It may be expensive but we have by far the best healthcare in the world. The main positive byproduct of our system is it breads innovation. What is the last medical breakthrough or new drug to come out a system with socialized healthcare? The answer to our healthcare system issues starts with opening the market. We research buying a TV at 10 different place but good look even finding out what a medical procedure costs these days. The third party payer system of insurance makes people care less about costs. If insurance was eliminated and hospitals and doctors competed in a real open market like every other business costs would plummet. The best example of this is LASIK eye surgery. Insurances didn’t cover it, therefore it was subject to the open market. Prices plummeted dramatically and continue to get cheaper. Their is no reason that wouldn’t work with everything else.
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