All About Whose Money?

From the birth of health care in the US, the system was focused on making money.  Any kind of public service that wasn't able to be governed by the free market was quickly attacked and shut down by those who were in the position of losing profits.  I never thought about the extent to which Americans seem to have an innate need for the concept of the free market in any industry.  That tradition has carried into present times where our health system is run by a hodge podge system of private and public funding.  Most working Americans have the attitude that they are contributing to the economy by participating in the work force and have earned the right to health care.  The idea is that if one can pay for better health care than they deserve to be treated better than those who cannot.  The problem is that no one (or so few that I can't name one person I know who is exuberant over their coverage) is actually getting this superior service.  The reality is that we are all paying for each other's health care and that simple idea isn't clearly conveyed to the general public.  If more people were educated on the exact breakdown of where their employer contribution combined with their own out of pocket costs to health insurance were going, I think there would be a huge backlash as to how money is spent regarding health care in the country.  Our current health care system is not set up for a free market battle which is unfortunate since Americans insist on pushing this idea upon all markets regardless on how inefficient the result.