Quote from BlueHorseshoe:
It is easy to pick on the car companies. The truth is usually more complex, and harder to face.
I've lived in several foreign countries and I will state a simple truth: US health care, as delivered, is, hands down, a grossly inferior product. It is garbage for Americans except for the perfectly healthy, or the extremely rich. Socialist policies have a place in a capitalist system, in fact makes a capitalist system stronger, more just, a better meritocracy. Even the doctors will say as much.
I have lived in other countries too and I have the opposite opinion. the US has by far the best medical system that I know of. One of the 'problems' is that it is SOOO good that it can really cost a lot as we have so many more options available to us.
Our costs are just more 'in your face' and we can have a choice. In other places they live in a smaller house and drive in a smaller (or have no car) but they get 'less expensive' health insurance.
I just can't find a way to understand how more government control and a bigger government will make things better. Perhaps I have just missed the examples that are out there as I have yet to see one??