The Health care system can be improved, but it most definitely is not a mess.

From experience, you put a nation’s healthcare in private hands exclusively with little to no government oversight, costs will get catastrophic.

If you want everyone to have some degree of healthcare, everyone is going to have to pay, so it’s not free (as has been said above). The government should be able to work with private health maintenance organizations to come up with a few tiers of guaranteed services. The individual will have to contribute to some degree, but the government will contribute. Bottom line though, services provided will not be limitless. There is going to have to be services, surgeries and medication that won’t be covered. Thus the tiers, the more the individual contributes, the more they get guaranteed. It can be done, but there is that nasty word - taxes.

If the government handles our security, safety & education, they should be able to handle this. Hell, if it were that much safer, secure or that much better educationally to our children in another country, then obviously folks would be moving there. Seems like folks want to move here instead, so we must not be that horrible. Of course, that doesn’t mean improvements don’t need to be made.

My take on education next . . .