An argument that I find compelling is that the government is obviously corrupted by corporate influence. If you can find a talk on healthcare.gov by Mikey Dicke

An argument that I find compelling is that the government is obviously corrupted by corporate influence. If you can find a talk on healthcare.gov by Mikey Dickerson, it's pretty alarming. Basically, the government attempted to run a website, they sent out to contractors for help, 100 contractors returned, and 100 contractors were glued together to create a non functioning website. Obama, embarrassed by this, came to silicon valley to ask top engineers at Facebook and Google to come fix the site. These engineers heeded the country's call for help, came in, and unfucked the website, largely by telling 90% of the contractors to fuck off. Now do you really want a government that can't run a basic website because they can't hire industry professionals at competitive pay to build it, but instead contracts out to businesses in a corrupt an ineffective way, to be running this? Corporate influence is so strong in America, and institutions have gotten so weak, it's hard to argue that OUR government can run this type of program. Especially considering half the country doesn't want it and won't hold the government accountable for it. Our situation is vastly more complex because of the American attitude on tax. "Taxes is theft" is a pretty common sentiment. The instant tax is involved 90% of Americans will hate the administration in power. So if you laid out a road map: 1. Convince the public you can do it 2. Convince the public they should pay for it 3. Actually implement it 4. Keep doctors and patients both happy How confident do you feel about any one of those points? I honestly don't feel confident about any of them. The only compelling argument against this line of thought is that most of the western world has done it successfully. What I am confident about is that we have to solve the American corruption problem before we can solve the healthcare problem.