here's an idea.. make medical insurance non profit. Across the board.

Running a non-profit organisation is orders of magnitude more complex and difficult than most would think. There are a trillion guidelines that you must follow to be considered non-profit, and eligible to receive external funding (both via the govt. and other sources) under a non-profit organisation banner.

The rules are extremely strict, and make for running an efficient company, quite difficult.

It's not just a myth that the US has the best health care, it is false.

Looks like he won't be the next Secretary of Health and Human Services, he withdrew his name due to his tax scandal.

The profit motive in the America insurance industry has to be addressed.

Take car insurance, for example. You have to have it, by law, which lets the insurance companies charge whatever they want. If you have to have it by law, there should be a more stringent policy controlling the payments people are requred to make. This is a prime example of a law written to help the corporations at the expense of everybody else.

The same is true for healthcare. We can provide better alternatives, but the insurance industry wouldn't like that.

If it is not the best, then why do people travel around the globe to be treated here?

Wake up, robots.

If it is the best, why do Americans travel to Canada for health care?

Having specialized equipment that is not avaliable elsewhere is not indicative of general state of the health care system as a whole.

>> ^lantern53:
If it is not the best, then why do people travel around the globe to be treated here?
Wake up, robots.


I guess if they're rich enough, they can go anywhere.