[craftinator]

100% agree. If we didn't have data about any of these other Western country's healthcare systems, then arguments like "maybe that's just how much it costs" or "there are tradeoffs between market driven and government driven" are plausible. However, that is simply not the case. The money goes >somewhere<, to >someone<, and with wealth inequality being quite high in the US, I imagine you can identify where a large amount of that money is going. Extremely rich pharma Bros are a great example of how the market has failed in the pharma industry.