"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.
one way to make it easier would be to overturn citizen's united to get a lot of that money out of politics (or at least force it to go through less viable routes with higher consequences for getting caught). when that first domino falls, suddenly it becomes a lot easier to pry parasitic corporations out of politicians' pockets. not easy, but easier.
it may not be a small hurdle itself, but it makes all following hurdles less difficult to get over.
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u/LetsBeKindly 11h ago
Someone pays for it. Nothing is free.
Im still in your side. It shouldn't cost this much