/biz/ - Business & Finance

This is probably the worst place on the internet to ask this, but what are the fiscal reasons to not adopt universal healthcare in the United States? I'm conservative but sympathize with the poor and homeless, it would be nice if they could have a free base level healthcare system. I'm also realistic so of course I'm not going to go gung ho for this without weighing the very real possible consequences.

Further, I would personally trade most of social welfare (if not all) for universal healthcare because the primary worry of the poor is their health and if it is going to ruin their finances and lives if they break a leg or something.

Why would it be (or why is it) better if the system was (is) done privately versus publicly?

/biz/ is bmo harris a good bank ;_;