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Originally Posted by New Era
Universal healthcare in the US is pretty much a no-go because of the money from the insurance lobby. Universal healthcare is pretty easy to setup if they want to. All they need to do is pick a single insurance company to act as the government's provider and then force all services through them.
Obamacare actually had opportunity to do just this. The Feds took over AIG in 2008 when they bailed them out. They owned the asset. AIG had a portfolio in healthcare insurance and could have been the provider of choice, just by directive. Didn't happen because of too much money in the insurance lobby.
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And that is why US health care is among the most expensive in the world on a per capita basis...every service needs to have a margin built in.
The business model if ****ed up if you want good services for the citizens as a whole.