American health care is not really a system at all. It’s a market. In a market, people with money can buy what they want and many people are left out. So we thought, no, we don’t want market-driven health care. We want a real system, something that covers everybody and doesn’t depend on how much money you have.
Best summary of the problem that I’ve ever seen. And, it also sets up the fundamental conflict between capitalism and democracy. Markets are, by definition, anti-democratic. One dollar, one vote. No dollars, no votes. It’s corruption in a bag.
