I believe that if we paid like you MM, less people would go and be more pissed.
Sounds good in principal, but when it's actually applied people would whine and bitch about it.
Truth is that like pensions, employer provided coverage is what society expects. And they expect insurance to cover everything. Keep me alive at any cost!
Until we accept it's not financially possible either way, we won't be able to move to a free market healthcare or government healthcare.
Both paths require people to accept they can't have everything paid for. One because you are too poor to afford it, and the other because it's not cost efficient.
But I watched a John McCain interview in December, he said we're in a perfect storm for healthcare. Watch as people lose jobs, lose health insurance. Then they are uninsurable or can't afford care. Suddenly they will either want socialized medicine OR they will feel that everyone should pay out of pocket.
Who knows which way it will go. But until you are in the boat of not affording care, most of us have no sympathy. But when we are, suddenly we want all the government help we can get.
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