To clarify, when I said I'd favor socialized medicine that we drastically underfund, the goal was to stop wasting resources on medicine. I.e., we should bring o

To clarify, when I said I'd favor socialized medicine that we drastically underfund, the goal was to stop wasting resources on medicine. I.e., we should bring our health care utilization/spending down to UK levels, since evidently that doesn't significantly harm health. Using a definition like "meets the costs of providing the services it mandates" inherently contradicts this philosophy since in the US, all sorts of crazy services will be mandated. E.g., mammograms for women under 50.