This seems like a no brainer. If you put healthcare in the hands of for profit companies, they are going to focus on maximizing profit rather than maximizing health.

[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 1 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

Even if you do put healthcare on the hands of for-profit, it could work, what with the high demand and hospitals being big players, meaning they have scale, a big prerequisite for lowering price.

At least for the "common" ailments.

That being said, there's no competition, the only true capitalist prerequisite for capitalism working.

So basically, capitalist healthcare could work, but US healthcare is basically as late-stage as capitalism could get, so alas - no.