The American healthcare system actually is ideal if you're an insurance executive or a pharmaceutical company.
And yes, I'd rather have government by the People and for the People in charge. It beats having our health dictated by the Greedy and for the Dollar.
The ACA's failing is that it is too great a compromise. It is a far fucking cry from socialized medicine, which implicates a single-payer system. That is what we should be moving toward if we are serious about reducing costs -- a system where the government is empowered to negotiate on behalf of the people, rather than a system where insurance companies collude with providers to fleece us.
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