You make it sound simple. If a man leaves his wife and baby and cancels their insurance, you are 100% happy to let that baby die?
Are you %100 happy to pull out a gun, stick it in the face of the nearest guy and say: "give me money to save the baby or else I'll kill you"? or are you willing to explore non-violent solutions, such as charity.
Also, collectivised healthcare is a Tragedy of the Commons scenario; creating scarcity. Which is why, in the socialised system, you have to wait 4 weeks to see a doctor to save your baby. Are you going to deny the baby immediate care because you have squandered health care resources by eliminating the price system?
Also, socialised health is a moral hazard; people take less care of themselves because society has "got it covered" if anything goes wrong. This also drives up costs and waste.
Less fiction please.
1. There is no wait for emergency treatment in the UK. Appointments are not needed - you drive up to an out of hours service and are usually seen within 30 minutes. If you do want to use a GP service, its normally a same day appointment system but that is your choice. If a doctor made me wait 2 days, I would take my business elsewhere.
2. People in the US die younger than in the UK. The US pays 90% more for its health care as a percentage of GDP. The socialised system is more efficient.
3. You seriously think that having people die younger at a greater cost is moral? I regard it as extortion.
What amuses me is that you see a broken expensive system in the US and your response is "Freedom - hurray" while you see working systems in most other countries and your response is "OMFG oppression."
