Explaining Health Care to a Friend

Welcome to the forum! It’s so great to have you. You’re off to a great start.

Definitely check out The Ultimate Beginner meta-thread and the welcome thread there. You’ll probably want to bookmark it, as it’s a major collection of links for things you might want to look into in the future and refer back to.

As for health care, there is actually a nice collection of resources there that provide exactly what you’re looking for:

Health care

In particular I recommend:

Re: Healthcare, Let’s Help Each Other

How to Fix Health Care Without Spending a Dime — Part 1, Part 2

Socialized Healthcare vs. The Laws of Economics

The Free Market: Four-Step Health Care Solution