&gt; Nationalized healthcare is a disaster economically<p>If this is what an economic disaster looks like, where do I sign up?<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_%28PPP%29_per_capita" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;List_of_countries_by_total_hea...</a><p>&gt; and in patient outcomes<p>Back when I was taking a health care policy class and actually digging up these stats on a semi-regular basis, I typically saw the US in the middle of the OECD 20 pack. PDF page 46 of this report, for instance:<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rand.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;rand&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;technical_reports&#x2F;2010&#x2F;RAND_TR738.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.rand.org&#x2F;content&#x2F;dam&#x2F;rand&#x2F;pubs&#x2F;technical_reports&#x2F;...</a><p>Exceptions: we do really well at treating breast cancer and diabetes. But sometimes we&#x27;re at the bottom of the pack, too. Overall it&#x27;s a wash.<p>&gt; patient and physician autonomy<p>Like the freedom to go to any hospital in the country and know that it will be covered? The freedom to know that calling the ambulance won&#x27;t cost you $12,000 which is somehow not covered by your plan? Or the freedom to have a claims adjuster who isn&#x27;t financially incentivized against you? What about the freedom to spend half of the money you are forced to spend on our continued experiment with private health care? There are many kinds of freedom <i>not</i> provided by choosing between megacorp A and suspiciously similar megacorp B.