Does it really make sense to think of healthcare in isolation? The entire social contract in America needs to be re-written.
Given the status quo, an
Urban Institute analysis of the Sanders' single-payer plan estimates an increase in government spending of $32T over the next 10 years.
At a growth rate of 2.5% on a '15 GDP of $18T, this would imply economic stagnation across all other sectors for the next 40 years. Ignoring questions of "political will", that is completely insane. It should not soak up the productivity gains of TWO ENTIRE GENERATIONS to provide universal healthcare.
Society needs to be redesigned from the ground up so that most people are not trapped in such dysfunctional and inherently diseased bodies.
I mean, healthcare would be a trivially solvable problem if we had a population of people with the metabolic profiles of the iconic unemployed lumber worker and his wife circa 1939.
Today you'd guess these were upper-middle class people on a Western-themed marriage retreat, because who else can afford to look this healthy in their 30's? (Answer: random unemployed people in the '30s.)