The government has price controls in effect for Medicare federally funded payments.
The Medicaid rates are less than the cost of services provided in many cases and funded by the federal and state governments then administered by the states.
The pool of private insured patients are paying higher costs to subsidize Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements to healthcare providers. Private insured patients are the only profit center.
If you or your employer is buying healthcare insurance you are getting fucked.
Taxes would have to increase for Medicare or Medicaid to pay closer to the going rate.
Or, costs of providing ALL healthcare would have to be capped by wage and price controls -- and that is just not going to happen under the present system.
We will have to increase taxes 6% to 10% to pay for a National Healthcare Scheme. A National Healthcare Scheme would have to contract with the present providers or build a public provider network or system with the capital expense of building new facilities. By revoking the non-profit status of hospitals and a reformation of tax loopholes or advantages in the private medical and pharmaceutical business, thus making their business model much less profitable, at which time they may be forced to sell out to the government National Healthcare Scheme.
This is making an eminent public domain case for a National Healthcare Scheme and using
force majeure
then it may take 20 years of court cases.
Politicians are promising a National Healthcare Scheme but they are going to hit a brick wall nationalizing healthcare.