Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 2 years ago, 22 minutes later[^][v]#1,257,520
In the US, one of the main reason why healthcare is so expensive is because of the control the American Medical Association (AMA) has gained over the past 80+ years. The idea is simple: tightly control who can practice medicine (control the supply), then throttle the number of new medical schools (choke off the supply to increase demand).
Insurance and other parasitic industries arose out of a way for the average person to attempt to cope with this. It was not the other way around.
Simply removing the requirement of licensure to practice medicine would slit the throat of the AMA and would all but completely solve the healthcare crisis. Anyone that cares, can continue going to doctors from AMA certified schools™ and pay for their $200k+ tuition.
I'm not against socialized medicine, but trying to implement it in the US without killing off the primary cancer that is the AMA is a fool's errand and a great way to further accelerate the already accelerating poor-to-rich wealth re-distribution in the US.
The AMA has been against socialized medicine since at least the 1940s, and campaigned against Medicare to begin with. Nothing has changed today, although they aren't as blatant in revealing their motives as they used to be. It's wholly ironic since the need for socialized medicine is entirely because of their existence.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 2 years ago, 9 minutes later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#1,257,587
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You mean insurance companies who literally decide who lives or dies based on profit and not on medical science? I guess those are death panels.