> The debate is far too abstract, with unsupported, sweeping claims about comparative efficacy. It’s not at all abstract, you’re just obfuscating. If your conc

> The debate is far too abstract, with unsupported, sweeping claims about comparative efficacy. It’s not at all abstract, you’re just obfuscating. If your concern is costs, we should have a fully nationalized model like the UK because that has lower expenditure per capita than single payer or mixed public-private systems. Or, if we can’t have that, have single payer, because it too still has lower costs than the mixed systems in the developed world. It’s not cargo cultism by way of arguments from analogy. It’s Americans irrationally clinging to their exceptionalism in the face of stark counter examples while their people die in the streets, ration care, and go bankrupt.