[imperfect_blue]

US healthcare costs are nothing to do with socialism or capitalism.

The reason is two-fold: US is subsidizing the rest of the world's medical research, and US healthcare bureaucracy is among the worst in the world.

[analognoise]

Most of the basic medical research is funded by tax dollars.

Also, are you sure the bureaucracy isn't exactly the point? If you're too sick to fight off a denial and die, they keep the money.

I think we're subsidizing Wall Street's profits with our garbage system, but the sooner people realize our system is totally failed maybe we can knock it down and do something else.