Many countries have government run health care. I don't know that these government run healthcare programs always the best. There are a lot of things you hear from people in those countries that talk about the downside.
One obstacle that other countries haven't had to deal with in creating their own healthcare, is pharmaceutical companies. Politicians keep talking about changing healthcare, but the never talk about taking on the big pharmaceutical companies. These pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars on commercials, drug reps, lunches for the entire doctor's office staff etc..and then the American consumer pays $4-$8 per pill sometimes even more. That doesn't happen in other countries.
Here is a website that you can put your doctor's name in and see how much money they have taken from pharmaceutical companies in the way of free lunches and other gifts.
https://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
My doctor is on there for $180.00. He allows only certain reps to bring coffee occasionally. The doctor across the hall from him is on there for almost 10K. Cardiologist and other high paid specialist are even worse.
You might just think by not going to a doctor on the list would solve the problem, but the drug companies pass all that off to you and me in the form of price per pill and Medicare tax dollars.
Here is another recent example of a drug on 60 minutes that cost $80.00 to manufacture, but they charge over $4000.00 for it. You would think that a lot of scripts wouldn't get filled with such a price tag, but the prescriptions for this medication have skyrocketed thanks to bit of a scam the pharmaceutical company is running. If they can do it with this drug, the can do it with others, and in fact they have.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/evzio-...ug-naloxone-with-a-4000-price-tag-60-minutes/
I think we need to fix this before we change the current model..even though the current model isn't a good one. It is easy to look at other countries and say, "Well we could just apply that here." The problem is we aren't are England, Switzerland, Germany or any other place. We are America, and we a have unique set of problems. Unfortunately, we have brought on many of these problems and now they are raging out of control like a California wildfire. I see politicians glossing over some of the biggest troublemakers regarding healthcare cost. They want to take control and implement healthcare programs, but they don't want to tackle the elephant in the room. Once we give way to a government run healthcare, if things go further south, we will have little to no recourse.
I am not for government run health care, and I am also not saying it couldn't work, but it would take many years and it would be a large undertaking to do it correctly.