Obamacare written to deceive the public.

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The "free" bit only applies to the end consumer Heywood.

Exactly.

Of course the USA ultimately needs universal healthcare, but it also needs to regulate how much clinics can charge as well otherwise you still end up paying much more for medical services when compared with all other OECD countries.

If we agree, for argument's sake, that the cost of healthcare is around 20% of the economy, then you want to get as much as possible from that 20%. You don't want a system that costs 1/5th of your economy and yet is inaccessible to a proportion of your population. Every single person unable to access the healthcare they need is a person who is unable to contribute to their potential to the economy. So it weakens the economy overall. Then they become a burden on other required State funded services.