If half your political establishment is absolutely dedicated to making sure public health care fails as much and as hard as possible for ideological reasons, su

If half your political establishment is absolutely dedicated to making sure public health care fails as much and as hard as possible for ideological reasons, sure, it's going to be hard to get public health care to work. Oh BTW your private medical insurance system also subsidises our health care by over-inflating drug costs, paying an outsized proportion of drug development costs, so cheers. From a citizen of a European country that does pay it's way militarily.