Excuse me, but when did hospitals and doctors start building roads and bridges?
The US has been running two large health insurance companies—Medicare and Medicaid, which, between them, insure about 40% of all Americans, and they do it with administrative costs that are about one-fifth of those for private insurers in the US.
People who think the Federal Government is inefficient with respect to health insurance should stop practicing yellow journalism and get their facts straight.
Another thing: private insurance has done no better than public insurance at discouraging skyrocketing costs for health care. The lack of significant cost containment measures lead, mostly, by the lack of any significant discouragement of “defensive” medical practice, has driven the prescription of far too many unnecessary tests for the entire population of the United States. Some may call it rationing, but I call it delivery of appropriate care. It isn’t patients who love seeing the inside of hospitals, it’s the doctors who aren’t educated about best practices practicing defensively.
Never let it be said that conservatives or libertarians let their minds be confused by the facts.