When did I say "it can never be done"? Certainly it can, but you'd have to make some pretty drastic changes to the US healthcare market as a whole first- and th

When did I say "it can never be done"? Certainly it can, but you'd have to make some pretty drastic changes to the US healthcare market as a whole first- and those changes will be staunchly opposed by all the entrenched healthcare cartels. It wouldn't be easy to do it right, and it'd be very easy to do it wrong and make the whole situation worse (which is what the healthcare cartel would push for). The US healthcare market is a uniquely fucked up monstrosity, comparing it to the universal healthcare system of a country the fraction of our size doesn't make sense. You say the government has little profit incentive, sure, but they also have little incentive to control costs. It's "other people's money", they spend it like drunken sailors, even when they're 30 trillion in debt. Look at what happened to tuition costs after the government started handing out loans for them. I'd take these calls for universal healthcare more seriously if they talked about addressing the underlying issues in the market first, but from what I can tell it's mostly idealogues pushing their pet policy without grounding it in reality. All the bad actors in the industry aren't just going to disappear or start playing nice when they start getting funded by taxpayers (more than they already are).