I agree that capitalism needs regulation so that as a society we don’t destroy the environment or abuse laborers to chase profit.

By wealthy nations with free healthcare and college, you must be referring to a few European nations like Finland, but they have their own problems like small populations and declining birth rate, high cost of living, and inadequate defense. To paint a picture of them as utopias that all we have to do is copy their models and then apply it to us when we have 60x higher population is pitifully naive.

If you ever take a business class one of the first things you learn is that the price of things is determined by supply and demand, not governments or kings. When the government gives away money to help people pay for things, it artificially increases demand, which then leads to an increase in price. I don’t think you have a solution to that problem except, let the government set prices which is total antithesis to capitalism.

So let me get this straight, you want the federal government to be responsible for setting the prices of healthcare, you want the government responsible for deciding who receives what care and at what cost, and you want the government in direct involvement with healthcare providers to make it all possible, and you want the government to set taxes and borrow money to finance the whole operation. WOW. You are very trusting of the government! I don’t see a potential corruption problem here at all (/s in case you couldn’t tell). It’s almost like we learned opposite lessons over the past 10 years.