Quote Originally Posted by rory_20_uk View Post
A solution would be to have charities enter as players and undercut the costs of the current incumbents. Given how much the health service costs per capita to practically everywhere else on the planet a non-private option would grow over time.

Honestly - I think the only solution is for things to get SO bad that there is cross party consensus on tax-funded basic healthcare, like everywhere else in the Western world.

I guess the US just didn't suffer enough during WWII for the Unions and the Churches to put aside their differences and make that common cause.