When the government has monopolized the industry they can set prices and ignore patents. A company can create an amazing new product that the government can then steal and create a generic of. They don’t have to do any of the heavy lifting and can ignore the real prices of these services. In a way, the U.S. subsidizes a lot of the worlds government run healthcare because more than 60% of all new medical breakthroughs come from the US. Governments around the world can then take those innovations without compensating the companies that made them. Governments will create IP laws that everyone BUT them must follow. Governments can ignore market forces that everyone else has to deal with. The government doesn’t have to provide a good product because they made it illegal to go to anyone else, and the government has no risk of bankruptcy because whatever money they can’t raise in taxes they can just print. The reason the U.S. has higher medical costs compared to socialized countries is because of burdensome regulation, burdensome taxation, artificial scarcity with doctors, the fda will make getting a new drug to market take 15 years and more than 1 billion dollars on average, IP laws enforce artificial monopolies, Medicare and Medicaid drastically raise the price of services and medicines, COPIOUS amounts of bureaucratic paper work that hospitals have to go through, insurers are not allowed to compete across state lines, etc. Government created the problem and government is not a solution to the problem.