You can look at healthcare as a cost or as a benefit. If you look at it as a cost, you will attempt to minimize it. If you look at it as a benefit, you will a

You can look at healthcare as a cost or as a benefit. If you look at it as a cost, you will attempt to minimize it. If you look at it as a benefit, you will attempt to maximize it. The State looks at healthcare as a cost to be minimized. The State does not get sick or need healthcare. Likewise, employers also look at healthcare as a cost to be minimized, but they do have some motivation to provide better quality insurance if they wish to attract employees. Only you, the potential patient, really care about the benefits side of healthcare, and the quality of healthcare. Health insurance has been screwed up by having the State and/or employers provide it for decades. What is required is for people to be able to purchase health insurance themselves just like they do any other kind of insurance. That would be a start anyway.