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[–] Yukonman ago 

Your forgetting about Monopsony buying power. When there is only 1 buyer. That results in a market that buyer can set the price. Under private system with many buyers the suppliers can set the price.

We can see the direct result of this for an example in drug prices in Canada compared to the USA. Prescription drug prices are normally much lower here. Doctors and nurses in canada work for lower wages too.

That being said there are downsides to public healthcare, under this system there's no real price on the value of the services. So you'll see an under providing of some services and an over provision of other services. In canada MRI machines are in shortage and the number of people in regency rooms with non-emergency conditions is high.

It's not perfect but it's overall better in the long run than run then private healthcare. Cheaper and more benifitial to the entire economy but more wasteful.

There's an entire field of economics devoted to healthcare economics who know this way better than me. I'm a financial economist sorry if I'm not 100% correct but from what I've read that seams to be the consensus so far.