sadly i have to side with ruff over robbie...
capitalist healthcare is inherently unworkable.
the middle class cannot afford to pay its own way. thats why the insurance is so outrageous...its not something you "probably wont use" like things that are insurable. rather, middles class health care is like homes on the ocean...uninsurable, because the loss is "guaranteed" to happen. so the old people cost a fortune, young people dont pay...& you end up with disaster. healthy people never signed up in numbers to make obamacare work, even with lawful mandates & fines.
there is no point of an insurance company. they are simply a quasi-bank that price gouges you today to cover you in the future. their profits & what they do provide no benefit to patient care, & simply add overhead & profits to the cost of being sick. absurd.
health care also bends to monopoly, due to high cost of investment & hi hurdles to enter the market, like regulations & the need for highly skilled people to administer, people that are in limited supplies. thats why USA is importing so much white collar talent, because todays kids study social justice & art history instead of math & science.
so i support single payer, despite being a right-of-center on most other matters. i agree with bernie, health care should be a right, like public safety is a right...no GOP argues that we should disband government security, like cops or the pentagon...
