First, while there is some amount of corruption, there isn't nearly as much as you think. The ObamaCare bill was not pushed by the companies. It was pushed by Obama.
The costly regulations that have been driving up health care costs for decades were not pushed by the companies, they were pushed by the left.
The health insurance and hospitals didn't call up Obama and say "hey let's screw up the health care industry with costly stupid regulations!"
No, Obama called up the health care industry and said "I'm going to screw up the health industry with regulations. Do you have any suggestions?".
Second, if insurance companies were in fact unnecessary and a waste, then we would never have used them to start with. Funny how the Canadians actually sued their own government for the right to have private insurance, and France, Germany and numerous other countries, all have private insurance on top of their expensive gov-care system.
So oddly it would seem that most of the people in 1st world countries all believe insurance isn't a waste.
Third, while you claim that the UK spend half as much on health care, that isn't entirely true.
They spend less, because they get less. It's easy to say then spend half as much, when they don't get nearly as much.
25 cancer drugs to be denied on NHS
But hey... it keeps costs down.
Can I demand a specific treatment? - Health questions - NHS Choices
Straight from the NHS web site:
Remember that:
some types of treatment aren't available on the NHS
But at least it's cheaper! In fact not getting treatment is universally cheaper.
'I went abroad for prostate cancer therapy... and I'm sending the NHS
"While the NHS acknowledges the benefits of proton therapy and plans to build its own centres, many patients are given inferior treatments simply because the cost of sending patients to the US for this treatment – well over £100,000 - is too high.”
There you go. Yeah, we'll get that treatment here.... eventually.... but for now the cost is just too high, so you get this inferior treatment, and hope you live. Yeah, maybe you'd like a say in that, but since we're footing the bill, we'll make that call for you.
You know.... so we keep cost down. Wouldn't want to be as expensive as the US.
This is the problem dude. Comparing US to the UK health care, is not an apples to apples comparison. Never has been.
Every time they have compared real survival rates on nearly everything, the US does better, and by a wide margin.
Do you really want to cut costs and risk dying more? You really want to cause literally millions of people to die, to save a few bucks?
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