Healthcare

The world criticizes America’s health care system which is largely employer based. They crow about government health care systems elsewhere in OECD countries. That is sophistry at best. In Canada, UK, Germany healthcare is abysmal. The long waits for critical surgeries (months!), inability to go into an emergency room without permission (what!) abound. And most of these countries also include a need to supplement government healthcare with private insurance. Well, if you are that great why do we need to get private insurance?

Healthcare is NOT an entitlement. It is practical to offer some benefits when a government has surplus funds - but almost all governments are steeped in debt. And overall economic efficiency is gained if there are no middle men (no government, no insurance). Sure that has its downside but overall costs are kept low when you don’t have middlemen.