"They" are the radical left, people who are proposing radical solutions that could only in the end make things much worse. The expanded they of fools in congress have been working on this problem for decades and in no small part also share responsibility for why it's gotten as bad as it has.
I am making the claim that a typical and sufficiently motivated individual can take better care of himself than the government can, and it's 100% truth.
Your K-12 education and maintaining public health are fundamentally different by nature for a myriad of reasons. It strains credulity that absent an incentive to do so, you would logically conclude they are similar because people need it.
Something like 70% of medical innovation occurs in the US, which is a pretty ridiculous stat. Why? Because people can profit, and profit can be used to take the risky investment to innovate and produce. What incentive does the government have to do this? What about after you have syphoned off so much wealth from the 1% 50%, grants dry up to universities used for research? How many lives lost by cures that were never found? How many lost innovations that would've led to decrease in costs? And in this case, this hurts not only us, but the rest of the world, those "better" healthcare systems who get handed our innovations for free on a silver platter.
What would I do? Other than what I already mentioned, reducing demand and there's a wide variety of creative ways you could do this, I would expand medicare for the poor as we have already decided (rightly) to serve the needs of the very poor. For everyone else struggling with chronic diseases that they have difficulty paying for, I would expand social security to cover those payments and I would increase social security taxes on the top 10% or whatever to pay for it because indeed we need productive people to have their illnesses managed so they can stay productive. Could have tax rebates, programs to keep people out of bankruptcy, better rules on out of network and reciprocal payments costs and other specific targeted pin prick solutions...Something along those lines, and I would spend all my time working on treating the cause not the symptoms, like say Tort reform capping the maximum liability doctors/hospitals are liable for malpractice and do everything I possible could not to ruin (like socialism would) the best medicine in the world, where the world's greatest doctors leave their homes to come practice here at places like John Hopkins or Mass General because it's only here they can truly be on the cutting edge of their field.
You just haven't thought this through further than your own nose, and I mean that not in the arrogant way you take my typing, but it's the reality. I type frankly and directly, you are wrong.
Anyway, that's basically my position, that and that scapegoating the insurance industries and Martin Skrelli's of the world doesn't get you where you need to go,more government regulation is probably needed there. I wish you good luck in managing your condition/.
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