We also seem to disagree on the question of whether schools are a business or a critical public institution
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This is confusing to me. I guess Iād trust a government bureaucrat to care about me more than I trust an employee of the medical insurance company, whose bonus depends on denying me coverage.
Yes, bureaucracy is annoying, which is why I have never worked in one, but at least there isnāt a moral hazard built in.
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In every example Iāve seen, the bureaucracy and denial-of-treatment found in the US HMO system massively outstrips anything found in the socialised healthcare Iām familiar with.
Yeah, thereās the occassional story of someone having to wait nine months for necessary-but-not-time-critical surgery. Usually because a conservative government has been deliberately starving funding from the public health system in an attempt to discredit it [1].
[1] Plus the occasional bad-luck case, where a scheduled elective surgery is repeatedly delayed by unfortunately timed emergency cases taking priority in the operating theatres. Funding starvation makes that more likely, of course.
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