Well, I worked for over 20 years for a government health care system, paid for by taxes, which serves a patient population which is older than average and generally in poor health. All staff, including physicians, are on salary and receive pay commensurate with their qualifications and experience; many of the physician staff are also on the faculties of medical schools and most of the medical care facilities actively participate in the training of health care professionals at all levels. The system and the facilities within it consistently receive evaluation scores well above the US average from the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, and cost per patient treated is well below the US average.

I am, of course, speaking of the Department of Veterans Affairs...once called (before 1989) the Veterans Administration.