A government bureaucrat who is not accountable for outcome - AND won't be fired for screwups because he's in the government union? Seems worse, not better.
Since when are government employees incompetent or not motivated to perform?
Doctors and nurses run HR? Going to be a very expensive healthcare system you have there.
What are you talking about? Nothing changes from what it is now but the administrative costs are not handled by for -profit administrative services. They are handled by not-for profit administrative services so that all non-essential costs can be applied to patient care and nor line the pockets of insurance executives. Billions of dollars!
That's where we differ. The reason we spend exorbitant amounts on HIV drugs is that eventually someone will pay exorbitant amounts FOR HIV drugs.
That sounds absolutely macabre. Have you ever been denied healthcare insurance for a pre-existing condition and who made that decision? For profit insurance companies, not any medical or government employee. They drive the cost of all medical services to the highest healtcare cost of any health care system in the world.
Explain to me why I can get American made drugs cheaper in Canada than here in the US?
Guess what makes the difference......profit incentives.
It is that simple.
A government healthcare system might well decide "putting that money towards heart disease rather than HIV care will save more people, so let's abandon HIV treatment. For the good of everyone."
What a bizarre outlook on government services you have. Who would make such a decision? Trump or a Dr? Are you familiar with the Medical field, health care? I am. I was a medical biller working for a county hospital. I received a salary for the work I did. No outsourcing of medical billing to for-profit administrative services. The Hospital was a county hospital, it did not make a profit.
Fortunately that didn't happen.
Why would it?
And today we have people living normal lives with HIV. We've even managed to cure it completely in at least one case.
Yes, because Doctors, not health insurance companies made the medical decisions. There is a difference between "medical services" and "administrative services. Medical services are provided by
health-care practitioners for standard medical fees, just like today. Administrative services should be provided by
non-profit administrative services.
Nor is it a government service to be apportioned, like money to fix potholes.
Are you equating fixing potholes with Healthcare? The right to have pot-holes fixed is the same as the "right to life and pursuit of happiness"?
Actually we pay road taxes and the County fixes the roads. The profit is made only by the equipment manufacturers who were the low bidders on competing bids for heavy equipment. The county does not have a toll-booth next to the potholes where everyone driving over the newly repaired road needs to pay a toll. You have already paid your road taxes.
But that is how, in effect, our healthcare system works now. You get your health care and then you have to pay your insurance provider and keep their stock holders happy.
Health Care and Profit are mutually exclusive. Every dollar that is not wasted on profit can be applied to actual hands on health care.