@epictittus @VaxxSabbath @TrevorGoodchild @dissidentsoaps @sickburnbro @Shadowman311 @LostShakerOfSalt @transgrammaractivist >research new cures and treatments, but thats not healthcare per se

FWIW, this is hugely expensive. For many reasons, but fundamentally it's just hard. Because of this, sticker price on treatments for boutique diseases is hundreds of thousands of dollars. Nobody is paying that. Nobody can. But by any fair definition it certainly is healthcare.

(Pharma has gotten a black eye recently, but there is quite a lot of non-shitty things going on in that sphere. Dismissing our alchemists and sorcerers out of hand is not a good idea.)

Charity can be useful, but it's not a magic wand. Charity is a byproduct of wealth, and we're not in a great place for that now. It's one thing to give excess canned food to a food pantry; it's an entirely other thing to gift an MRI.

Healthcare is insensitive to price signals because it's a different beast than other services. It is highly sensitive to regulation. And it operates on a long timeline, requiring a certain amount of inertia or it falls behind quickly.

IMO, any solution that does not involve the medical schools and teaching hospitals in a prominent role is not going to work. They are the flywheels of this engine, and you risk ruin if you don't keep them spinning. This falls quite clearly in the public sphere.