In the late 1990s/early 2000s, the South Korean government consolidated all private health insurers to create a government-managed single payer pool. This put a lot of people in the insurance industry at the time out of business, but in the end, every South Korean now has access to cheap, government financed universal healthcare. It is because of government regulation that South Korea’s healthcare system is so successful.

You however are arguing that the Democratic Party is “killing thousands of jobs in the insurance industry, increasing taxes on all of us, and forcing all people to go to these hospitals which can barely handle patients they have now”. Unfortunately, that is exactly what the South Korean government did. They put a lot of private insurers, and people working for private insurers out of business, they increased taxes as a direct replacement to private insurers, and they supposedly force “all people to go to these hospitals which can barely handle patients they have now”. Well, sorry to say this, but when I was living in Korea back in 2005, I went in for weekly non-critical services, and I never had to wait in any lines.

Your email is highly misleading. You are attempting to base the merits of the Korea’s healthcare system on Libertarian economics when in fact, South Korea’s healthcare success is due to the government mandated, and regulated single payer pool.