I used your per capital healthcare costs and JTK's comment:That is a far flung conclusion you are drawing.
And I can't speak for the captain but the numbers seem to undermine your bragging about how good the US system is.
I don't think cutting out the insurance companies would cut all the costs, the states that have opted out of private exchanges and expanded Medicare are dependent on Federal money to keep it going.But here's the thing.
Universal Health care would cost Americans less.
You currently pay twice was Canadians pay. This is an empirical fact. And for that, you do not have Universal Health Care.
So why not instead of paying Insurance Companies, the program be administered by the Government. Your costs would decrease and everyone would have health care.
Insurance companies are the true Fat cats in all of this in the USA. Eliminate them from the equation, reduce costs, and everyone has health care.
One of the reasons our costs are higher is that we pay doctors more. We pay doctors more like we pay all highly successful people more. We also have silly levels of capacity for convienience.
Sorry, I know this is getting to complex for most of you.....