Although I happen to think it is, I didn’t SAY it’s better. I said socialist medicine is not compatible with free market economics.
Financing
More than 70% of the financing is paid by tax receipts. Approximately 20% of these receipts come from Social Security Contributions, and about 5% from different sorts of fees. This way, the British Health System is by and large a tax-funded and state-run system. Unfortunately, it is getting more and more evident, that this way of financing is not working sufficiently. There has been a financial deficit of 750 million Euros in the year 2005/2006.
http://www.ess-europe.de/en/uk_health_insurance.htm
The problem with government running any part of an individual’s life is that who should decide how it should be done? If you asked me, I would say we should outlaw use of all preservatives, institute a fat-tax, and require mandatory micro-biological testing in all public places. Then we wouldn’t need our current health system to be so big, but nobody asked me, and I don’t agree with socialized medicine.
You can never beat a system that lets people choose. There will always be private insurance companies if that’s what you want. Personally I’d rather pay cash for everything.
Who says that state inspection for cars is a good way to keep roads safe? Well it’s too late to change it in PA, some bureaucrats put it in place a long time ago when cars didn’t last as long. Giving the government power over anything is dangerous, doing so willingly is foolhardy.