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If it's implemented correctly, an american national health service would work fine. If anything, it'd do some good to the country (healthcare being shockingly h

• talmand 10y ago
  >> If it's implemented correctly That's the problem, I have trust issues with the people in power being capable of doing such a thing.
  • brianwawok 10y ago
    On the flip side, the current system is totally broke. Get to free universal healthcare, then iterate on it to make it better and better. You have to move to make progress.
    • AnimalMuppet 10y ago
      The current system is bad in many ways, all right? I think we can agree on that. But it's not so bad that it can't get much worse. Getting worse is not abstract - it translates into people dying needlessly. (So does the current system being bad.) "Just change something" is only good advice if you're currently at a local minimum. And "iterate rapidly to improve" doesn't work when each change takes an act of Congress. In particular: The last change was, what, six years ago? And the last change before that was, what, in the 1970s? You may only get one or two more chance to change this in your lifetime.
      • r_smart 10y ago
        This is a hugely important point that people seem to miss. The US government is huge and frequently gets things wrong, and when they do, it's a political failure to admit it later. Furthermore, there's no real punishment for anyone that screwed up. That's a problem, and that's why fixing this is so hard.
    • r_smart 10y ago
      Please stop saying free. It's not free. Also, iteration and government intervention don't really mix, as has been pointed out.