re: #572 kingkenrod

Seeking to eliminate private catastrophic-only plans is completely irrelevant, given that the Singapore catastrophic system is public. Given a public catastrophic system, Singapore changes the private market for health insurance totally, into something that’s a lot more consumer oriented— it’s about providing continual health care, not the insurance industry attempting to kick critically ill people off the rolls and otherwise deny care.

I definitely agree population density is in their favor, and that the spread out and rural areas in the US will always incur higher costs. That doesn’t mean the system won’t work, just that it won’t be as efficient in that particular regard as Singapore.