All this noise about the problems of the American "system", ignores the fact that America doesn't have a health-care system yet. If the problem in the United S

All this noise about the problems of the American "system", ignores the fact that America doesn't have a health-care system yet. If the problem in the United States is high-cost, the solution is tort-reform, so that GPs can comfortably practice general medicine and afford their insurance premiums again. Unless a central "system" is going to indemnify GPs, there won't be a flood of them entering the pool, since their rates will be fixed by central rate tables (maybe, if they are lucky, adjusted for regional cost-of-living) even if only indirectly by maximum benefits needed to maintain minimal legal coverage levels; if they are to remain privately run and thus administratively independent.