After a request to make this an OP: When the system is run largely by insurers who largely deny claims from the insured
Did they expect to receive a triple A rating from those who they have bankrupted, threatened to bankrupt, or will bankrupt? When families either lose members altogether, or else are forced to watch members die slowly due to being denied care, does anyone really expect them to be viewed favorably by an adoring public?
I travel a lot here in Europe, and despite the wishful thinkers, the reality is that each country here has its own system of health care. Ironically, in my experience, the country that offers the fewest complaints about its system of health care is the otherwise-bureaucratically paralyzed France. The Germans say that they have ten bureaucrats for every one they need, and the French say they have ten bureaucrats for every one in Germany. In Sweden, I was told "man måste vara nästan död för att komma i sjukhuset," or "you gotta be almost dead to get into the hospital." I have often told my own story about how I managed to talk my way into a German cardiology practice, and thus saved my own life. Fortunately, once you ARE insured here, then the coverage is usually honored. Because my wife had no mandated health insurance from ages 60-65, I paid for her health insurance out of my own pocket, between €550 and €600 a month. When she got an "always fatal" rare form of cancer at age 64, that insurance DID pick up the bill, which could have ruined me if we hadn't gotten the insurance. It was optional, not mandated. Without it, I would have lost either her or our house eight years ago.
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