Long before the recent inflation, healthcare in the United States was widely understood as too expensive. Liberals and leftists have generally done most of the grousing about the high cost of healthcare, and their solution has been to increase government control over the sector in ways that consolidate everything.

President Barack Obama opted to regulate and subsidize insurers and providers in his “Affordable Care Act.” Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and other socialists want the federal government to become the sole health insurance company. In the United Kingdom, the government is also the dominant provider of healthcare through the National Health Service.