re: Why can every other first world country have healthcare for all?

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I do believe in a system where Charity plays a large part in health care.

At a time, health care in this country was a mission of religious orders such as, Sisters, Baptists, Shriners, and Jesuits all worked towards healing. You can see this in the names of hospitals. Others were teaching facilities where the mission was education.

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You've hit the nail on the head as to why neither a capitalist model nor a socialist model can adequately administer a system in which the concepts of maximizing profit and minimizing cost must DELIBERATELY be sacrificed to adequately serve the customer.

You want my solution for reforming health care?

1. Repeal Obamacare

2. Pass a free standing pre-existing conditions clause

3. Ban malpractice suits. In cases of assault or the most extreme gross negligence, felony or misdemeanor charges will be brought by the state as warranted.

4. Ban patents on combination medications. Double the existing length of patents for newly discovered antibiotics.

5. Ban the involvement of for profit health care *delivery* (hospitals, freestanding surgical centers, nursing homes, rehab centers, clinics, labs, imaging centers). All companies involved in the *delivery* of health care are structured as non-profits. Institute a statutory salary cap of say $750,000, COLA adjusted, for *all* employees of such institutions. Make the salaries of all such employees tax free, and student loan payments deductible.

6. Create a system of tax incentives for other for-profit companies not involved in direct health care to work with the health care delivery system.

Notice that none of the above proposals (and this is far from a comprehensive list) actually affect how medical professionals care for their patients. They all target the organizational and bureaucratic structures in which they are forced to work (which is the root of the problem).