I present to you as a counter-argument the British private healthcare system - BUPA, Spire and friends. Prices are sane, administration is not excessive, and qu

I present to you as a counter-argument the British private healthcare system - BUPA, Spire and friends. Prices are sane, administration is not excessive, and quality is much higher than NHS care. My suspicion about the US healthcare system is that the governments interventions in hyper-regulating the various players and introducing partial single-payer systems like medicaid/medicare, complicating the whole system and driving a need for administrators to sort out the whole incompatible mess. The free market averts this outcome because there are no mandatory systems - players can negotiate to reduce their own burdens, where regulation is not something that can be negotiated to a point of sanity. Or in other words, it's the integrated team running a 3 amigos session versus the ivory tower architect handing down mandates.