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I'm indifferent to most presidential candidates because they will all behave roughly the same. The Bern is the only one I'd be very concerned about considering his agenda is to marginalize the US, not strengthen it. What's his campaign slogan; "Make America Great Again, like North Korea"?
There's tons of ways our healthcare does not work well and things to be done to reduce costs.
Administrative overhead in both insurance and medicine represent waste. You as a patient get no benefit from people working to bill as much as they can to insurance, and insurance trying to reduce their payout. It's like stock market activity where a lot of noise is generated, but in the end nothing of value is produced.
Since people don't have advanced directives, all the relatives end up speaking on behalf of the patient, and since no consensus can be reached amongst a group of people, the path of least resistance is to have "everything that can be done" to keep the person alive a few more days or weeks. Government provided health would reduce those costs because they would have the say in what is reasonable end of life care.
Lots and lots of other ways to reduce costs too. I'd start by making it illegal to have employer provided health plans because insurance shouldn't depend on a particular place of employment, and you aren't a group of people, but an individual, so insurance should be tailored to your values. It should look more like car insurance. There should be plans that are lower cost that might specify less end of life benefits, for instance.
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