Americans pay way way more for healthcare than any other country _because_ the prices of the medical resources are in private hands, in complete opossition to y

Americans pay way way more for healthcare than any other country _because_ the prices of the medical resources are in private hands, in complete opossition to your claim that they would get "higher rates of return in private accounts": https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2020/jan/us-health-care-global-perspective-2019 https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/2... , and you can easily find that the countries with the most control, e.g. Denmark have the best healthcare while disallowing for-profit enterprises in anything healthcare related.