Oddbean

Everyone in America currently has a right to healthcare (shouldn't be denied for discriminatory reasons). No one has the right to slave labor. (also why income taxes are immoral) America's healthcare industry is an enormous rat's nest. I don't think single-payer is the best answer. I'm not sure what is, but right now I do know insurance companies have WAY too much say in dictating care. Shifting all that to the federal government doesn't seem like the best solution.

Healthcare as a human right doesn’t mean enslavement of doctors. It means that no one should be deprived of basic care if they can’t afford it. The problem of course is that someone has to pay for it. If preventative care is accessible, people get less sick and don’t need to go to the emergency room for basic medical needs, which goes unpaid and drives up hospital costs for everyone else. So we either agree as a country to spread the risk around with a giant insurance pool, like we already do with Medicare, or we spread the cost of emergency care around, which is the more expensive and less efficient option.

No one is deprived of basic care. We have medicaid. We have giant insurance pools already (both public and private). They don't work great. Like I said, I don't have a solution, but centralizing power doesn't seem to be the best option