The proposal is not to adopt another country’s system. The proposal is Medicare for all. Medicare under current law is bankrupting the country. Medicare for all will put us in the express lane for bankruptcy. Our debt will be like Greece.

Other countries pay an unacceptably high price for their universal healthcare system. They typically have a lower standard of living, a shorter life expectancy after controlling for accidental deaths, homicides, suicides, and obesity, which aren’t a function of the healthcare system, higher unemployment, and lower per capita Gross Domestic Income (GDI), much higher taxes, and awful wait times, which lead to needless deaths.

There is so much price gouging in the drug business because we don’t have a free market. Drug companies are protected from competition. Ditto for hospitals and MRIs. Prices are falling for elective cosmetic surgery and elective vision enhancement surgery because those markets are much freer than the rest of the healthcare market.