I hate to get involved, as I am already feeling ill from stress today, but I can’t help but notice that the reasons being given as “things they’ve heard” as arg

I hate to get involved, as I am already feeling ill from stress today, but I can’t help but notice that the reasons being given as “things they’ve heard” as arguments against universal healthcare have nothing to do with the only reasonable argument I’ve actually heard. That argument is this: first look at the history - why is it that health care is so expensive? I (well not I, but scholars of this bent) argue some of the reasons for that are (a) price and wage controls during ww2 leading to employers subsidizing health care as a way to increase real wages while sticking to the letter of the law, so to speak, and this becoming a “sticky” practice leading to a general divorce of payee and payer in the health care system, as more and more people get employee subsidized insurance, and thus allowing prices to get distorted as the signal was hidden behind the subsidy, and meanwhile (b) the AMA, restricting the supply of doctors, bolstering their prestige, and wages. Etc etc Just talking from the point of view of the price system, meaning nothing against people with other arguments for the existence of the ama. So, if health insurance removes the direct price signal from health care provider to health care recipient, prices rise for years, and the problem festers and grows worse as politicians punt it down the road... Finally we come to the universal health care system as the answer. In this light it may be seen as a further divorce of payee and payer, such that cost will rise over the long time horizon, or effectiveness per dollar will drop, etc. On the other hand the public private quagmire that arose as a result of insurance company protectionist land grabs and back room deals between employers and insurers did no favors for outcomes under the present system. Anybody try a high deductible health plan this decade? What shit. It’s so bad that likely a universal system will be an improvement, even from this vantage.