> Providing free healthcare is the best way to treat more people. Outlandish claim. Venezuela has free healthcare. Argentina has free healthcare. Germany has f

> Providing free healthcare is the best way to treat more people. Outlandish claim. Venezuela has free healthcare. Argentina has free healthcare. Germany has free healthcare. And in each country, people go private when they can afford it. > All countries with free healthcare also have way tighter regulation on the pharma/medical industry than say, the US, so they can't just go and rise the price of medications whenever they want. You got cause and effect mixed up. It is regulation that makes pharma expensive in the us. It is the FDA that doesnt allow german pharma to flood the US, and that puts incredibly onerous costs to the R&D and manufacture of drugs. Thats why it is better for patients in the us to fly to other countries to buy their medication and fly back, in retail smuggling.