Again, I'm asking about medicare & medicaid specifically, not all government programs. What specifically was intentionally done to the design of these specific programs to make fail - intentionally - as you've argued?
Very simple...they forgot the basic laws of supply and demand.
The increased the demand by paying for the aged and infirmed without in ANY WAY doing anything to the supply side to keep the market forces from dramatically increasing the cost of health care.
If we really wanted our HC system to cost us less, we'd be busting our asses to train and many HC professionals and techies as possible.
OR alternatively we could just let tens of thousands of CUBAN doctors to emmigrate to this nation, too.
Fiel might not have done much right, but one thing he invested heaviliy in is training enough medical personnel to make HC available to everyone.
True they don't have much money to buy the advanced things we do, but their personnel are, I am informed, as good as HC professional here.