>- Free-for-all (disaster is an understatement) If you mean the US system in which insurance companies and government were always in bed, and in which the FDA

>- Free-for-all (disaster is an understatement) If you mean the US system in which insurance companies and government were always in bed, and in which the FDA regulated the shit out of the drug market, making it necessary to spend billions to release a new drug, then I would actually agree, public healthcare is somewhat more humane. But nowhere in the world do you have a completely free market. And I would say that's something that should happen fairly soon with the advent of Bitcoin. To understand why regulations always make it worse for the consumer and what the alternative might be, try to imagine how a society would work without a state. That is, imagine there's no way a state and government can ever emerge. How would society organize itself. Come up with solutions. And surely you will find ways that are much more elegant and humane. These days, people see problem and their first reaction is apply government to it: "we have poor people that cannot afford healthcare, therefore government!", all the while every possible example in the world points out that only in places where government was less pervasive, poor people had more opportunities to rise and climb the ladder.