Lines are, as always, the inevitable result of price control. Where there is a free market for medicine, there are no lines—people pay for the medical services they actually care for (for themselves or others they love) and thereby attract the talent and resources.
A "good" insurance plan will reimburse "over 90%" of medicine costs—but with a $15 "copay" and a regulatory limit to a few days worth of pills. Thus *after reimbursement* you end up paying more for a 3 month supply than buying unreimbursed on international free markets online.
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Are there any acceptable healthcare system anywhere in the world or are we comparing real life to a theoretical nirvana?
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A system is the opposite of what's needed. Freedom. Let people organize without coercion, monopolies, mandates, arbitrary regulations, bureaucracy. Patients, doctors, charities, mutual insurance associations and companies, etc., can peacefully cooperate and compete without guns.
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