The ironic thing is that under the current government Britain has been trying as hard as it can to spend money on healthcare left right and centre. The NHS now swallows around £90bn a year or around £1,500 a year per person ($2,600 approximately). Yet here we have our resident socialist saying that healthcare spending should go down. Gotta love that
I don't really understand a great deal how the US healthcare system works but the problem seems to be that there is very little choice offered to the individual. If you're going to offer no choice to the end user then it doesn't really matter whether the system is run privately or publicly, it will still deliver a poor service.