My mother gets government run health care: goes to a University Clinic paid for a combination medicare / retired AF Colonia’s plan (not VA, not sure what it is).
They did not bother to check her blood sugar even though she had infections that they couldn’t cure with antibotic regium. Not that I’m sure they really tried — at 70, she’s going to die soon anyway right?
And my sister and I have done more to get her blood sugar under control than the doctors.
I have uncles that get VA care — after they drive 400 miles to the nearest center since they can’t get VA care in their community. And once they get care — they usually have to go through a battery of paperwork and other hoops.
Oh, and they live in Central Illinois, certainly not in the backwoods.
No, I don’t want that form of government health care.
And the main reason health care is so expenstive these days is a) we’re paying for R&D for the rest of the world, and b) we’re curing diseases that used to kill period — or at least keeping them under control (Type 1 diabetes for example).