> any nationalized system would be corrupt and probably not very effective.
You can measure stuff like that, and "it turns out" (to use a celebrated phrase) that even countries like Italy (which does have problems of corruption and being not very effective in terms of the government) can provide care to everyone for a lower price than in the US, in terms of a percentage of GDP. You do have to wait for some stuff, but seeing a doctor is not one of them.
My experience in Austria was that it was even better than Italy at providing pretty good care quickly, cheaply, and to pretty much everyone.
You can measure stuff like that, and "it turns out" (to use a celebrated phrase) that even countries like Italy (which does have problems of corruption and being not very effective in terms of the government) can provide care to everyone for a lower price than in the US, in terms of a percentage of GDP. You do have to wait for some stuff, but seeing a doctor is not one of them.
My experience in Austria was that it was even better than Italy at providing pretty good care quickly, cheaply, and to pretty much everyone.