1. In any healthcare system, people who make $150 an hour and drive Mercedes will be able to have any health care they want, just as now. The focus is for people who cannot afford it.
Medicaid is available for low income individuals. If you think Medicaid isn't expansive enough, we could expand it and reach the results you seem to advocate rather than enact various policies that have disastrous long-term cost implications. A better solution would be (1) more consumer driven care; (2) subsidies to those who legitimately could not obtain care with an HSA and high deductible plan; (3) tort reform; and (4) an insurance exchange without community rating restrictions or minimum coverage requirements
2. if our current system works so well, why is our cost per person almost twice as much as the second most expensive country? Also why do our health outcomes such as lifespan or infant mortality rank 29th in the world, just ahead of Cuba?
That is a common misconception due mainly to misleading statistics. Our health outcomes, when adjusted to reflect health care (i.e., taking out other issues such as murder, obesity, etc.) is actually extremely good. In fact, when adjusted for these factors, US healthcare ranks among the best in the world. For an example of what I am talking about, see Greg Mankiw's Blog: Where would you rather be sick?
3.Why is it that when Democrats propose a trillion dollar healthcare overhaul over 10 years it's socialism, but when we put the taxpayer on the hook for $14 trillion in loans and guarantees to Citi, Goldman et. al. it's capitolism?
I am not defending either of the parties, so I choose not to address this issue.
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