Stateside the insurance system isn't really any different. It's social medicine with a extra profit element stuck in. If it were me, I'd get rid of almost any of these cost sharing mechanisms and make it small group based. A family, church, community, etc. can build up a savings for medical things and make those decisions instead of feeding it all to the government.

There's a huge mountain to climb on the pricing though way before that. What's irritating is the government and grants pay for a ton of this research, and when they find something they then patent it and demand insane prices to recoup their research dollars that were full of grants and taxpayer money anyway. It's the most obvious with prescription drugs, when suddenly something that $10 a pill is sold in the bottles of 100 for $10 overnight, because a switch flipped and its off-patent. Cancer treatment is likely to cost more mechanically, but $540k? No.

That's not even to mention the fights with those who would ignore it, have no community, etc. as they'd just complain and scream some sort of -ism until it was given to them anyway.

Stateside the insurance system isn't really any different. It's social medicine with a extra profit element stuck in. If it were me, I'd get rid of almost any of these cost sharing mechanisms and make it small group based. A family, church, community, etc. can build up a savings for medical things and make those decisions instead of feeding it all to the government.

There's a huge mountain to climb on the pricing though way before that. What's irritating is the government and grants pay for a ton of this research, and when they find something they then patent it and demand insane prices to recoup their research dollars that were full of grants and taxpayer money anyway. It's the most obvious with prescription drugs, when suddenly something that $10 a pill is sold in the bottles of 100 for $10 overnight, because a switch flipped. Cancer treatment is likely to cost more mechanically, but $540k? No.

That's not even to mention the fights with those who would ignore it, have no community, etc. as they'd just complain and scream some sort of -ism until it was given to them anyway.