It turns out markets are a great solution to some kinds of problems and not so much for others. There's a lot of reasons why healthcare doesn't approximate a free market very well, and why government intervention here tends to do better than the US system. Yes I know there is plenty of government intervention in the US healthcare system - it's just not the right kind of intervention.
The US is actually the only developed nation without a public healthcare system, it also has the highest healthcare costs of any nation on earth. Coincidence?
The US is actually the only developed nation without a public healthcare system, it also has the highest healthcare costs of any nation on earth. Coincidence?
It seems like a pretty big mess at the moment.