This seems like something that shouldn't be handled by the "free market" at all, because human health is at stake. And because of that, it isn't left to "the free market" in most of europe.

Exactly human health is at stake, so we should let the efficiency of a proper free-market take care of it.

Have you ever received health-care in Europe? I have, Italy. It takes a painfully long time to get an appointment and the quality of care is not close to on par with that received in the US unless you opt for private care anyway.

So your one anecdote outweighs all our other European anecdotes saying the opposite?

I have had excellent service here in Norway and even in these times of COVID I have not had to wait unreasonably long for appointments for things like MRI and my GP seems to have less to do now than in normal times, far fewer respiratory conditions to deal with.

As with any other large system there will be some variation in quality and availability even within the same country as my wife discovered giving birth in two different hospitals in the UK, one merely good enough, the other excellent.

I am European, so yeah, European public health care systems have been taking care of me pretty much all my life, including the months my Mom was pregnant with me.

And I have NEVER had anything to complain about. Neither has my family, or anyone I know. The quality is top notch, and getting an appointment is as easy for me as picking up the phone.

And btw. if anyone is unhappy with what public health care provides, its easy to get private insurance ON TOP OF it. Public health care doesn't replace private insurance, it sets a baseline of quality people receive no matter what.

And speaking of quality: https://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/quality...

> Have you ever received health-care in Europe?

Have you ever received health-care in Australia, its pretty good and free.

First off, law/rule is passed. So who is in charge of enforcement.

Second, came into existence 01/2021. That was under Trump and Republicans, so ostensibly they support it.

Third, the only concern I have is being able to ensure that the procedures are the same and also outcome statistics. There are a couple different hip replacement surgeries that you can have. One is trickier to perform but has better outcome and recovery time, if both are listed as hip replacement and customers don't know there are differences then you create a race to the bottom.

The vaccine came from his brilliant scientific mind so there should be no objections there either.

> something that should actually be able to be handled in bipartisan fashion

That seems to be making the assumption that any politician is willing to listen to something that the "wrong" side says.

The article is about the Biden administration failing to enforce the rules - how does that make Republicans responsible?

The health care has fully captured both parties. There is nothing you can expect from either party. And certainly not while Biden is in power. He should have embraced Medicare for All which to me seems a viable path to a better system.

It seems he had a limited amount of political capital and he sought to use it on COVID and infrastructure.