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I'd rather emulate by AquinasDomer

Germany, France, or Switzerland than the UK. They've shown what happens when the government has the option of slowly gutting the system to balance the budget.

JAMA put out a policy editorial proposing we create a regulated exchange that rationalizes/places rules about how insurance companies and hospitals interact (basically take away the incentive to overbill on one end and blanket deny on the other).

I'm not sure if the public realizes that medical funding is close to 50% government funded. We haven't had a "free market" system in a long time.