@jb >comments are spicy

>"In 2022 USA citizenry paid just about 4.5 Trillion dollars on health care insurance. Insurance companies paid only about 798 Billion dollars in claims. There were under 340 Million US citizens. That means for every USA citizen insurance companies paid out in claims under $2340. It also means that the average annual amount paid by a US citizen for the anticipated $2340 received from their insurance company was $13,235. Had instead every USA citizen paid just $2500 annually to the government for insurance and was then automatically covered, in theory not only would the government make a profit, but that US citizen would save $10,000. Of course the health care insurers would would lose about 3.7 trillion dollars and our congressmen can't have that. If that happened how could they afford the luxuries they get?"

i'm sure the numbers aren't super great, it's really hard to get accurate numbers in that morass, but it's close enough to make the point
we have socialized healthcare right now, but it's got this extra layer where some giant corporation can also pay employees and executives to get in between a doctor and a patient and hassle both of them, and still turn a massive profit
rent-seeking behavior and beak-wetters is NOT ALLOW
and for the first time, the rent-seekers and beak-wetters have some idea what NOT ALLOW means