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the only problem I've ever noticed is that some people tend to abuse a system where almost everything is free.
That's also another big problem. A system like that actually eventually leads itself to promoting failure and encourages people to abuse it. And then when crap hits the fan, who will the people go to for more help? Why, the government of course!
Especially compared to total size of dozens corporate bureaucracies that do the work now.
That's the big reason why medicial insurance premiums are so expensive in the United States. Each state has a set number of companies that provide insurance, and between these few companies, they hold a monolopy, or in the case of the state of Alabama, there's just one that proves medicial insurance to that whole state. This is very troubling.
What should be done is promote more competition by splitting up these companies and monolopies, and that alone will drive prices down, thus affording more people more access to healthcare. There's other things like frivolous lawsuit cases and reform in that area and whatnot, but doing what I described above would be a big step forward.