[HalcyonicStorm]

I understand where you're coming from related to this. We (in the US) hear this critique with regards to the NHS or the Canadian healthcare system.

The part you're missing is that there is an arms race of pricing between healthcare corporations (there have been massive mergers of hospital systems) and insurance companies in terms of prices. We, the patients, are caught in between the giants while prices are going sky high and we are at our most vulnerable.

The hope is this will fix prices to a reasonable level so if we choose to go for private care, those prices will also be reasonable. A lot of specialists that I see ask for cash payments and don't accept insurance. They are also overbooked because a lot of healthcare providers are being driven out of industry from the conditions.