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The problem is that we have to stick with our utterly dreadful healthcare purely for ideological reasons.
When the right do this on a particular policy, it's rightly denounced. When the left do it, it's "morally correct".
It's not for ideological reasons, and nobody is saying there shouldn't be a reform. Investing in private healthcare is a scam and not the proper way to reform. It's almost impossible to go back from depending on the private sector, so they are trying to just get your feet wet.
If you think It's hard to reform a public system, wait till its all tangled with private care, hiring more private care while we take care of the backlog of weaning off private care? The only investments made should be public, and drastic.