Ah, the American healthcare system. Before Obamacare, half the country thought it sucked; half thought it was awesome. After Obamacare ... well, it's pretty much the same thing, now it's a question of which people are now on Team Suck vs. Team Awesome. The far right wants to cut the government out of healthcare altogether, while the far left wants nothing short of 100 percent taxpayer-funded healthcare. Meanwhile, a single Tylenol pill -- which costs 15 cents at Target -- can cost $15 at the hospital. For seven years, approval of the Affordable Care Act hovered in the low 40 percent range ... yet all of a sudden, on the brink of it actually being repealed, 54 percent of the public suddenly decided they like it.

A few years ago, if you asked me how the U.S. healthcare system should run, I would've said something like:

"Get rid of the confusing, overlapping mishmash of insurance companies -- Medicare, Medicaid, Private insurance, blah blah blah -- and replace it with a single program which covers everything for everyone. It'd be paid for by raising people's taxes, but everyone would still save money because those taxes would cost less than what they were paying beforehand due to there being no more price-gouging insurance companies and only one, much more efficient system to keep track of!"

Piece of cake, right? So why the hell is it so difficult to make major changes to the healthcare system in America? Well ...

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