Its rather baffling that you manage to selectively ignore all the countries that manage to produce higher quality health care (by any objective measure of outcomes ranging from infant mortality to life expectancy), at a fraction of the cost, using universal health care. If you want to talk about empirical evidence, socialized health care at the national level pretty unambiguously kicks the crap out of our current system.

Just google ‘list of countries by infant mortality’, ‘list of countries by life expectancy’, ‘list of countries by under-five mortality’, etc. etc. etc. Countries with socialized medicine are always at the top. Meanwhile, according to OECD data, the United State’s healthcare system costs -almost twice as much- per capita as the most expensive universal healthcare nation (Norway), and three or four times as much as many of the other countries that outperform the US system in terms of the objective numerical measurements I described above.

And please don’t try to argue ‘the US benefits from economies of scale, so it makes sense that our system is three times as expensive’, because that’s… kind of backwards.