Healthcare is a right everyone in a society that wants to thrive should have. Being the predator and letting the law of the jungle operate is completely inconsistent with civilization. If civilization were to follow the law of the strongest we would still be fighting in bands. Reason had to come in at some point in order to organize ourselves and be more effective at defending our community from the environment. A constitution is an agreement between people to do things together. A nation can not be unless its citizens protect each other. A nation with people looking after their own selves and nobody else can not be a nation for long. How do you expect to be productive if the people in the lower classes, which are usually the ones doing all the physical work, are sick and can't produce? Visualizing the U.S. as a nation of college educated people where those that can't be rich must leave or die is monstruous, the poorest can't fend for themselves but are the ones creating the most wealth for those who have money. Pretending to eliminate poverty in the U.S. by denying healthcare is equivalent to any atrocity humanity has ever committed.
Healthcare must be reformed, there are better ways of doing things than letting the insurance companies and doctors set their prices. The biggest problem in the U.S. today is that doctors expect too many vacation days in their year by overcharging patients and insurance companies. Insurance companies charge too much for health insurance because of this and because they are too busy getting money so the CEO can build him/herself mansions and buy cars. Greed must disappear from the healthcare system and the government managing health centers is the solution to that, whether the government charges or not, it represents competition that keeps private providers in check and prices low. The idea that the government is incompetent to do this is made of pure lies, look at France, Norway and Canada, it can be done, we just have to trust our government more and our greedy CEO's and companies less.
People have no idea how to organize healthcare because they know nothing about how it is done in other countries, but everywhere else in the world, there is a government option keeping doctors and insurance companies' greed in check, or else there are fixed prices for treatments. Cosmetic treatments need to be paid by patients entirely, needed treatments should be covered to the extent of their "reasonable" price and not the price the doctor says should be paid, or even a percentage. That way you promote people going to the doctors offering their services for the fair price, not the most expensive ones.
