costa rica
should we go to costa rica for health care? or should we bring their health care system here? let's see. costa ricans are healthier than americans. and they spend half as much on health care. seems pretty good. there is the public tier and the private tier. the complaint about the public tier is that services take a long time to get. course that's really a good thing. the consumers and providers focus on ounces of prevention. instead of pounds of cure like our system. so let's suppose we wanted to do what they do. what would we have to do? well, we'd have to get rid of our high fat diet, our high sodium diet, our high refined sugar diet, our sedentary lifestyle, our ability to opt out, and our ability to sue our doctors. until we do that, quibbling about who pays and who gets what is pretty much irrelevant. except to the folks who make their fortunes selling health care.