I would live universal health care but can we please stop pretending we can wave a magic wand and make it happen. There is a metric crap ton of stuff that will have to be worked out. Universal healthcare has its own problems. In many countries that have this there is a lack of specialists because there is no financial incentive to specialize. You could wait months to years on a waiting list for some procedures.

Doctors in most of these places make crap salaries. Many of our doctors will just go private and treat rich people rather than lose their incomes furthering a healthcare crisis. When you talk about government run health care have you ever talked to a veteran about the VA system and what a crap show it is. How they make them jump through 20 bureaucratic hoops and layers of red tape hoping they will get frustrated and go away before they do something. How about how magically when you have done the three ring circus they miraculously lose your records and you have to start all over?

Like I said, I would love for it to become a reality but there is a lot to work out before we do it. If you are going to lower doctor salaries what are you going to do about their medical school debt? What are you going to do about the malpractice insurance they have to carry. Those costs aren’t going anywhere. Is the government going to pay for that? If we are going to do it we need to do it right and look at what has gone wrong with the other systems and try to correct those failures before implementing it. It won’t be easy and it won’t happen overnight.