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Hospitals arent run by the government, though ryoder. I just posted an eye-popping article on health care costs, I think you'd like it. If medicine is privatized, it becomes this terrible form of capitalism where the buyer has no choice and no power. WHen you have an emergency you don't have time to really choose which hospital you go to. The government, however, has this power as a large buyer. For example, if you paid a 100$ "chargemaster" price for advil, medicare would have likely paid 10 dollars for it. It's much more than in a shop, but still considerably less than you as a powerless buyer could negotiate. In countries with more nationalized health care costs are lower, not higher, because of this very principle. The US government spends more money (per capita) than any nation in the world on health care, and people still have to often pay out of pocket. It's gotten ridiculous and needs to stop.