Except the biggest one: the need to maximize the extraction and distribution of profit to shareholders, while funding the cheapest and least amount of care possible without jeopardizing that imperative.
Except we have pretty much the entire developed world's healthcare systems to debunk that claim. They have similar life expectancies, medical outcomes, infant mortality, access to care, wait times, etc. for half the cost.
* 31st for Life Expectancy [1]
* 32nd in infant mortality [2]
* 5th for colorectal cancer survival [3]
* 1st for breast cancer survival [3]
* 19th for cervical cancer survival [3]
* 7th for heart attack mortality [3]
The actual numbers are reasonably close, but the cost is also about 25% more per captia [4] than the second highest-spending country.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_life_expe...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_infant_an...
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_quality_o...
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_hea...
People such as scientist Stephen Hawking wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the National Health Service would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless.
Forgive me while I laugh uncontrollably
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investor%27s_Business_Daily#Er...
> In July 2009, an editorial in Investor's Business Daily claimed that physicist Stephen Hawking "wouldn't have a chance in the U.K., where the [British] National Health Service (NHS) would say the life of this brilliant man, because of his physical handicaps, is essentially worthless." Hawking has always lived in the United Kingdom and receives his medical care from the NHS.
Government-funded health care suffers from all the same economic problems that privately financed health care suffers from, and the government is just as corrupt as any private organization, plus there tends to be little incentive for efficiency, so government programs tend to be extremely inefficient and wasteful.
I appreciate (and agree with) your concern for the disabled, but letting the government be in charge is a recipe for making everything worse.