American healthcare needs to be fixed (2)

So what about those politicians and policymakers, those charged by an angry public with figuring out what’s wrong with the healthcare system and then doing something to fix it? Those few who try to understand the healthcare system from a more global and less circumscribed viewpoint often become paralyzed by the chaos they find there. Examined as a whole, the American healthcare system is dysfunctional, operating under policies, traditions, priorities, and behaviors that are counterintuitive, counterproductive, and seemingly inexplicable. Smart politicians realize that tweaking policies in the midst of this bedlam - that is, instituting the simple solutions that many of their constituents call for - will make things worse. And they’ll be blamed. Their logical recourse is to take no real action at all but instead to utter
platitudes, point the finger at those in the opposing party whose job it really is to fix things (or whose obstructionism is preventing them from fixing things), and pray that the final healthcare implosion won’t occur until they are safely out of office, when it will have become somebody else’s problem. Given the chaotic nature of our healthcare system, this hot potato approach is understandable.
Another way of dealing with the current chaos would be to start over, completely restructuring the American healthcare system. Many Western nations have instituted fundamental reforms that render their healthcare systems more organized and equitable (while arguably less technologically advanced and innovative) than ours. None of these systerns is perfect - everyone understands that - but they are widely supported by their citizenries. Why can’t our leaders take one of these systems - the Canadian model is the most commonly proposed - make a few tweaks, and adopt it as our own? Read more about it in the book “Fixing American Healthcare”.