Maybe the gauntlet would be less severe if there wasn't such a massive pot of gold at the end of this particular rainbow. Much of it is just hazing and weeding

Maybe the gauntlet would be less severe if there wasn't such a massive pot of gold at the end of this particular rainbow. Much of it is just hazing and weeding out of the "unworthy". But that's sort of orthogonal to the problem I'm discussing. The cost structure that enables "low cost" socialized medicine in other countries is just not there, and it's not going to be there in this country in the foreseeable future. Given this, all this talk about "medicare for all" etc, is just electoral pandering and nothing else. It's not doable without turning the whole system into a money black hole that's even worse than what we have now.