Both in rich and poor countries, universal health care brings huge benefits
Universal health care is a euphemism for the poor and sick getting their medical care subsidized by the wealthy and healthy.<p>Morally, caring for the sick seems like the right thing to do, but it&#x27;s like when I hear Bernie Sanders call for &quot;free college education&quot;: he doesn&#x27;t mean free, he means the wealthy subsidizing it for others.<p>Universal health care implies just distributed costs, but the focus should be on bringing down costs so the payments don&#x27;t have to be so astronomical.<p>For example:<p>-Nurses could do a lot of things doctors do now, and for a lot less money, but MDs refuse to cede any authority.<p>-Medicare should be allowed to negotiate drug prices.<p>-Hospitals should pre-publish costs upfront before you accept care rather than saddle you with 100K in bills later on.<p>All of these things would help bring down cost but for political reasons we don&#x27;t do them. Instead it&#x27;s just about making wealthy people (which, for the record, I am not) pay more to cover for it.<p>Even if caring for the sick is just it shouldn&#x27;t be accomplished just by a wealth transfer (to be fair, the ACA had some provisions to bring down the cost of care, but not nearly enough).