By Anu Partanen
NY Times, March 19, 2017
"The trouble with a free-market approach is that health care is an immensely complicated and expensive industry, in which the individual rarely has much actual market power.
The point of universal coverage is to pool risk, for the maximum benefit of the individual when he or she needs care. And the point of having the government manage this complicated service is not to take freedom away from the individual. The point is the opposite: to give people more freedom.
I wish we were free to assume that our doctors get paid a salary to look after our best interests, not to profit by generating billable tests and procedures."
Excerpts from an amazing op-ed in the NY Times. It pretty well says it all in a pleasant "nordic" way.