Circa 1990, I used be an avid reader of the The Economist. This magazine often chastised the USA for not having public health care--for the same reason you gave: it is cheaper for society to go this way.

32 years later . . . . . . . . .

I've been working on my TDG for 25 years. The USA is heading for a one-party state. Other countries are having their own issues with their own democracy . . . . . . . .