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I'm not even at odds with the idea that the US playing world police has done good for the world. I'm merely pointing out that when you allow anyone to be world police, you can't do that without some form of accountability. You simply cannot trust people to do good things and hope they won't abuse their power, because with no accountability, they will.

And that's what's happening right now. We have detention camps on the border because there's no accountability for power abuse, we have an entirely unnecessary campaign of bombing that murders children in Yemen because nobody will put their foot down and hold Saudi Arabia accountable. China has detention centers (disguised as "vocational schools") because nobody will hold them accountable. Pharmaceutical companies can jack up the price of insulin 700% over 20 years (FTR, inflation over the 1996-2016 time period was 53%) because there is no accountability.

We'll always need someone to watch the watchers, basically. Because if we don't, they'll abuse their power and trample on the rights of others. And I know the original post was about healthcare, but this still holds true. All of these things are happening at the cost of the standard of living of the average person, because those in power are not accountable to those they represent.