Change My Mind

Conceptually at least, that also means they can do it at whatever cost they want. If you have to profit, you'll want to do a good job to attract customers or someone else will. Therefore you will offer the best possible care for the lowest price you can afford or someone will undercut that position.

If you don't need a profit then you have to trust people will try to do just as good a job out of the goodness of their hearts, and if there's anything we know about people it's that they tend to not overachieve day-to-day if it means they don't have to stay at work past 5:00 P.M.

Conceptual, yes, but just my take on the benefit of being pressured to do a good job. Right now we have neither incentivised private success or a decent public option in this country though...

I can introduce you to my family still living in Scotland. They love their national health insurance.

Given I've a fair bit of English blood that may not be good for my health. ;)

But in all honesty, it just comes down to principle for me. I believe government exists to protect its people and regulate the markets that serve them, not actually supplant those markets.

America is the only industrialized country were you can lose everything due to health.

I dislike my doctor unable to order tests because the insurance company is spending its first tens of millions profit on the CEO.

Doctors should be paid well. Medical experts deserve to be rewarded for learning a profession that difficult. But in England a hospital will have two people in the billing department. A similar sized hospital in America typically has one billing person per bed.

Additionally the number one medical insurance in America is Medicare when it comes to satisfaction by those that have it. Why? Way lower overhead and less red tape.

Who says America's system works well as it is?

It's not a free market. Companies aren't held in check with commonsense regulation. Therefore it's not something I would argue is good.