Healthcare = attempting the impossible

A Hit'n'Run post on the impending collapse of Medicare had me thinking about this. Thus, I bring you:

Why healthcare will never, ever, be "solved"

1) The people & resources it uses are not infinite. There is no endless supply of dollars, doctors, medicines, etc. A non-infinite resource cannot be guaranteed (as a socialized system would attempt) in any form without causing complete chaos.

2) the need for healthcare is infinite. There will never come a time when there's no use for it. In a market system, theorhetically Rational Economic Man would be better served chewing glass than providing healthcare.

No matter what system it is run under, what's being done is an attempt to address an unlimited demand with a limited supply. This being figured out would be an achievement akin to creating a perpetual motion machine.

I stringintly oppose the onset of a Socialist healthcare system, but not because I believe the free-market can serve the need: nothing can, it is simply not possible to do so. I do feel that a more reasonable system would lean closer to a free-market one than we currently do, both in less reliance on 3rd-party payers and in there being a crackdown on government favortism with providers, but my reason for opposing socialized healthcare is squarely focused on the fact of government incompetance, namely my belief that their imminent failure would bleed over into fields other than healthcare.