I'm told that a bunch of other modern democracies/republics have universal health care through their governments. That has to have begun at some particular time, and some other way to doing health care has to have been done before that. According to a documentary I watched about the creation of the UK's NHS, the previous "system" there had patients paying for it themselves (which meant the upper class got most of it and the poor were underserved).
That sounds comparable to the USA... at least, before things like ACA, HMOs, MediCare, and MedicAid. Those things make the private market not exactly a private market; they're the government's efforts to modify and partially control the market.
Did other countries out there with universal health care go through a phase like this, with their governments occasionally adding more and more patches to the private system before giving up and nationalizing? The documentary didn't give the impression that the UK did, but that's only one country. Has any country that was in the weird messy phase the USA is in right now, a quasi-private "system" with lots of complication & interference from the government, passed from this to a simply national/public universal system?
In other words, if we call having patients just pay for health care themselves "A", and a national universal system "C", and unplanned disorganized pile of government regulations & laws & programs on a quasi-private "system" "B"...
Can a country go A→B→C?
Or do they just go A→B or A→C?
That sounds comparable to the USA... at least, before things like ACA, HMOs, MediCare, and MedicAid. Those things make the private market not exactly a private market; they're the government's efforts to modify and partially control the market.
Did other countries out there with universal health care go through a phase like this, with their governments occasionally adding more and more patches to the private system before giving up and nationalizing? The documentary didn't give the impression that the UK did, but that's only one country. Has any country that was in the weird messy phase the USA is in right now, a quasi-private "system" with lots of complication & interference from the government, passed from this to a simply national/public universal system?
In other words, if we call having patients just pay for health care themselves "A", and a national universal system "C", and unplanned disorganized pile of government regulations & laws & programs on a quasi-private "system" "B"...
Can a country go A→B→C?
Or do they just go A→B or A→C?
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