US healthcare is an extra-bureaucratic, extra-wasteful form of socialized medicine, not a compromise between socialized medicine and the free market

Article: US healthcare is already as “socialist” as it can be

“US healthcare is an extra-bureaucratic, extra-wasteful form of socialized medicine, not a compromise between socialized medicine and the free market.”

US healthcare works by taking money from your paychecks, sending that money to a bureaucrat, and having that bureaucrat pay for other people’s healthcare. It’s a form of socialized medicine, just one with extra bureaucrats, some of whom are private corporations.

The public blames “free-market principles” for the failings of the US healthcare system, but they shouldn’t. The US healthcare system is 0% free-market.