The thing is that there is not just one good answer, there are several that might work. Which one is best for US? Is difficult to say. But the one thing I know is that public health system works and people who have it happy with it (myself included and I’m a cynic). So public is one answer. It is not the only one, though.

Here we also have private clinics and hospitals. They offer what I call “premium” (or luxury/more comfortable rooms/extra services). At the core of the product (treatment) they are no better. Treatment is more or less the same. And for things like a cancer, they send you to the public health system. That gives a “hint” about which system works better for the more complicated health problems. At least here.

I won’t discard public until you have find something better. And I would use results as a guide. When US have more or less the same maternity deaths, same life expectancy as Europe (or better), then you have it (if you get to have better, we probable would copy the system XD). Point is, by discarding the public option, it is possible that you are losing negotiation power. After all, here, people can ask for many things at private health because if it becomes crap, you can always go back to public, which is pretty good. Public forces private to be better or become irrelevant.

I also work on IT, and have rejected jobs in US because things like the health system. Sometimes more money won’t make up for what you lose on other things. Happily, remote works offer the opportunity to work with people from other countries anyway ;)