They may have woken up to it, but that doesn't mean they want social medicine.
Social medicine bad.
Social bureaucracy to track payments to private medical professionals good.
-Joe
No. Neither is good. I don't want to wait hours when I should only have to wait minutes. I don't want a shortage of doctors, medical equipment, etc. which govt run care would produce imo.
I agree. Letting the government run 'health-care' is a bad idea. Letting the government run the bureaucracy to track the premiums in and payments out to that private industry is a smart move. We don't need million dollar executives to track payments. Middle class bureaucrats will do the job for a whole lot less.
Working example: US Social Security. Been tracking premiums in and payments out since 1935 and currently running at an efficiency of less than 1% of premiums for all overhead. (That's less than 1 penny out of every FICA dollar collected for overhead)
-Joe