our healthcare system sucks because we tolerate these parasites on our system that have to "profit" for some reason. there's no competition. so they just siphon profit and buy off our legislators and regulators to keep the money train flowing
they are natural monopolies
they are monopolies alone, no government needed to make them
you don't spend billions to build a hospital across the street from another. there's no free market. we're not talking about nail salons
you don't go shopping for an oncologist based on cost. you don't shop around for hospitals while you are having a heart attack. there's no capitalism here
so we need government control, rather than make believing a magic free market fairy fixes things
i'm not a socialist or a statist. specifically on the topic of natural monopolies *alone*, universal payer is the least worst option
citation: all of our social and economic peers: uk, canada, japan, germany, australia, etc: they spend far less on healthcare, and have higher quality healthcare. and it's all government controlled
our bullshit system persists because our government is corrupted. we need to fix the corruption, then kick out the parasites