National healthcare systems thrive for three things: Universality (everyone covered, more or less equally), quality, and low cost.
You can only achieve two, never three.
If you achieve universality and low cost, quality suffers (Cuba).
If you achieve high quality and universality (more or less), cost is breathtakingly high (U.S.).
If you achieve low cost and high quality, only a limited number of people have access.
Leftists in the U.S. demand universality and high quality (which we have, due to market-driven innovation), but think it can be financed with Other Peoples' Money.
Ain't happening. Everyone who even has a job will have to pay a shitload...which is O'Care.
You can only achieve two, never three.
If you achieve universality and low cost, quality suffers (Cuba).
If you achieve high quality and universality (more or less), cost is breathtakingly high (U.S.).
If you achieve low cost and high quality, only a limited number of people have access.
Leftists in the U.S. demand universality and high quality (which we have, due to market-driven innovation), but think it can be financed with Other Peoples' Money.
Ain't happening. Everyone who even has a job will have to pay a shitload...which is O'Care.