Government monopoly services can only be perpetually underfunded. That is the nature of a market service divorced from public pricing and consumer choice. I recommend reading about public choice theory. Additionally, the biggest driving force in our boom/bust economic cycle is central bank money supply inflation through money creation and credit expansion. These actions enrich the politically-connected through the Cantillon effect while sending false signals into the market resulting in entrepreneurial malinvestment as described by the Austrian Business Cycle Theory.
It's impossible to tax society into prosperity. It's impossible to provide quality goods and services through beauraucracy. The escalating economic turmoil we have experienced for the past quarter-century is a direct consequence of governmental intervention, and I recommend reading or listening to The Pretense of Knowledge by Friedrich A. Hayek, because his warning when he received his Nobel prize in economics is still relevant today.
I'm not sold on neoliberalism.... pretty much every developed country has a social democratic third way style system, seems to work pretty well for most people. I'd also much rather live with national health rather than a US insurance based system.
I think there's a balance to be struck.
People talk and wrote as if the IS insurance cartel system is a product of "the free market." Far from it. What we have here is the result of a century of medical lobbying for special government provileges, tax codes, and political intervention.
Governments need to appear legitimate to gain at least grudging acceptance from the public, and services like education and healthcare can easily be made to appear like essential government programs. However, the result is always mediocre at best, and often completely broken. Canadians are often medical tourists to border states because American expense is preferable to long waits. further, if people pay in cash, the prices are far less than the ones we see from the insurance industry stories.
There is even a small but growing trend of clinics offering services with open prices and internal pharmacists using very small markups showing how much more affordable medicine and surgery can be without the insurance cartels. It's not theory, it's demonstrable even now in the US.