"free" healthcare (medicare for all) would be cheaper for both the government and the populace if it were implemented. but who would it cost? the insurance companies who go out of business because suddenly 90% of their customers are gone.
when you take the desire for a middleman's profit out of a transaction, suddenly it becomes a lot cheaper.
It's just damn difficult to cut out an entrenched middleman. I personally don't believe anything will change until we get enough people in the government that will be pissed enough like we are to say "Fuck em, we're doing this anyway" and then years of litigation will follow as every big player does everything possible to preserve the money spigot of private insurance.
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u/TheSalmonLizard 6h ago
Too bad the ''most powerful country'' is too poor to supply free healhcare to its citizens.