..while the public who should reap the compensation gets screwed, but the harm is distributed fairly evenly across society.
No, it most certainly is not. The harm is heaped upon poor minority communities, most especially low-income black males who account for 80% of the prison (=rape-camp slave labor for profit) population.
Similarly, they may pollute the atmosphere and increase my chances of getting cancer by a few millionths of a percent, but that is not hurting me much.
A dangerously myopic perspective.
When you can't swim in the oceans or even live within 50 miles of any ocean, will it affect you then?
As for how our socialist 'public health' system treats kids
Whoadude, I don't know where you're from but it's sure as shit better not be the United States.
Whatever healthcare system you have, I guarantee you it's better, WAY cheaper, more compassionate, more comprehensive, than the
parasite profiteering model for health"care" we have here.
U.S. spends 18% of our GDP on healthcare.
Australia spends only 9% of GDP. That's a country that is mostly unlivable fucking desert, by the way.
Hip replacement in Belgium costs $13,000.
Hip replacement in U.S. = $100,000 +
Colonoscopy Switzerland = $650.
Colonoscopy in US = $1,100
1 month of Lipitor in New Zealand = $7.
1 month of Lipitor in U.S. = $124
In the U.S.
healthcare providers charge whatever they think they can get away with.
BTW Americans go to the doctor less than Europeans and stay in hospitals far less time, probably because hospital stays are 7 times more expensive here in the U.S.