[tptacek]

I like the ACA. I think the Swiss system makes a lot of sense. Community rating, guaranteed issue, mandate, subsidy, then universal single payer at retirement, where costs are concentrated. It's a sane system. The problem isn't the system structure.

[rawgabbit]

What one thing would you change in the American system?

[tptacek]

I would drastically increase the number of residency slots Medicare funds.

[valval]

I would never have expected your answer to be “spend more of other people’s money”.

[bdangubic]

all of insurance and all of healthcare is "other people's money" :) it just depends where other people's money is going.

this is amazing thing to me as European living in the United States, people want Gov to spend money for education or healthcare or ... COMMUNISM!! but corporate subsidies and 984 trillion dollars to the department of offense - oh RIGHT ON - let me get another gig job to pay more to that :)

[valval]

The somewhat obvious thing you seem to be missing there is that the money isn’t being extracted by force.

[piva00]

Not force, just the veiled threat that if you don't pay you won't have healthcare.

Everyone will require healthcare at some point, and at the points where you need the most you can't go do some window shopping and price comparison. Why make it more difficult, cumbersome, expensive, and bureaucratic? Ideologues can be rather illogical.

[bdangubic]

try to not pay your taxes and see if it will be extracted by force :)