The healthcare system in the U.S. is broken, and it's scary to think what's going to happen as the baby boomers age.
Insurance is rapidly becoming completely unaffordable even in company policies with young healthy demographics.
And there is no easy answer. Eliminating sniffle and sneeze claims would save a good bit, but you still take a beating on the prescriptions. Many people couldn't afford the medicine prescribed if they couldn't use the drug card. Drug costs are outrageous.
Socialized medicine or any sort of regulation would very likely hurt the level of care received. Look at many countries that have it and how long it takes to get something like an MRI. You want to continue to encourage the best and the brightest to enter profession. Would you really want your doctor's office ran like the Post Office?
Unfortunately, I think some form of socialized medicine is now inevitable. The costs are already out of hand and will have to get worse as a large segment of our population ages. People will demand it as a vast majority of the population considers health care to be a basic human right.
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