Yet another failure for socialized medicine or anything else.

[Bob Butler 54]

There are a lot of usual tropes there.  You have the Red distrust of Big Government, which goes with the Blue distrust of Big Industry.  You have the Red love of independence fighting the Blue drive for strong communities.  You have the Red satisfaction with being healthy and wealthy, fighting the Blue perspective of providing a common service to all.  You have Red service to an elite who can afford it better if no service goes to those who can’t, vs the blue drive to have all folk being equal.  You quietly have a Red drive to serve only one’s own vs a Blue inclusiveness.

There are certainly excuses to look at the problem from different angles.  I happen to think that health care is a basic right, the UN Declaration of Human Rights and all that, a right that should be shared by all rather than limited to a healthy and wealthy few.  If you are one of the healthy and wealthy few, it is easy to take another perspective, to take worst cases and make absurd extrapolations.

As is, the system is centered on profits, and is a mess.  It is easy to dump on the current system from whatever perspective one chooses, and place the blame on the other guys.   It is hard to fix it, hard to overcome the profit and short sighted perspectives.