Sure. But the base problem is we've never had the political will to reallocate 5-10% of the economy away from health care because there are vested interests that give and vote and have no ready alternative. It's not some plot from the inside (entirely), it's that 20%-ish of our national economy is going to people who work in and around medicine who mostly couldn't/can't/won't duplicate that income outside of medicine.
So count me as the first person to raise my hand for an NHS-style system that delivers similar outcomes for half the cost, but what I want to know from the Warrens and Sanderses of the world is what they're going to do to address all the pissed off people deeply invested (thought skills and education) in the status quo such a relocation would create. When everyone from the docs through the radiology techs are angry that they're not getting what they were "promised" from this whole health care deal, what's the plan?
We've been through the whole "in aggregate we're all a little better off even if a few people are made much worse off" line once before with NAFTA, and more or less we got Trump as a result. I don't want to repeat that progress/backlash cycle again with health care workers. There needs to be a plan on the front end to address all the unmet exceptions and frustrated entitlement.
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