America has more doctors and more hospital beds per capita than Europe does. This is one of the reasons that Europe has seen more coronavirus cases and more deaths per capita than America - their healthcare system is starved for resources.

I am in no way claiming that the American healthcare system is perfect, but I don't see universal healthcare as a panacea, because we are seeing in real time that it is not.

As far as what my stance on healthcare is: I think healthcare is a unique market where there is rarely the ability for you as the patient to make an informed decision about your medical care. In other words, a free market approach is not entirely feasible. I think a system similar to our school system would be ideal: publicly operated hospitals available for little to no charge, with the freedom to start a private hospital that has to compete with the public ones. This would mean high quality care at reasonable prices all around.

This has always been my stance. I've met libertarians who agree and disagree with me, but I can defend my stance using libertarian "first principles". So I think it's fair to call it "true libertarian" philosophy.

A libertarian is not a republican, and a libertarian is not an anarchist. A libertarian simply believes that individual rights should be protected. That should not be such a controversial statement.