Something that doesn’t come up much is that Vermont tried to get single payer and they found out the state couldn’t afford it. So if a relatively rich state can’t afford it, what makes them think the United States can afford it with 20 trillion in debt?????? Idiots.
If you pull the curtain back on single-payer...the only way that you can afford it, is by lessening your expectations.
Examples, if the gov’t only pays X-amount for a service, instead of six hospitals in your region providing that service....most will drop that service, and become mostly just clinics with limited services. You go from six to one...meaning that one can make a profit off this and the rest give up on profit ability and become less.
Another example would be a long discussion by your doctor , as you’ve started to go from stage three to stage four cancer, and he won’t sign off on more chemo treatments because the return factor isn’t high enough.
Another example, your doctor will say you need a new hip replacement or knee replacement...but you smoke and weigh 50 pounds more than accepted. So they deny you the replacement until you make it 60 days without a smoke, and have lost the 50 pounds. Naturally, you can’t exercise because of the bad hip so losing the 50 pounds will take you a year minimum. So you end up going to Cuba and paying some clinic there $8,000 for a new hip instead of using your ‘free’ health insurance in the US.
Well, the fedgov can just print more money. /s