That requires ethical people to run and heavy enforcement otherwise it turns in to a corruption fest where doctors run their own private practices in addition to state funded and waiting lists run rampant forcing you to go private.
What is needed is real competition in the health care sector - because at the moment the whole thing in America is a coalition/monopoly between insurance, pharma and health care companies with the sole intent of giving you no choice but to pay and say thank you.
The supposed evil sole individual human you postulate as the source of dire evil is not the problem usually, rather the evil collective corporation or other organization calls the shots when we see these sorts of industry wide systematic abuses.
What is needed is real competition in the health care sector - because at the moment the whole thing in America is a coalition/monopoly between insurance, pharma and health care companies with the sole intent of giving you no choice but to pay and say thank you.