Absolutely! There is also that a privileged caste of national politicians, bureaucrats, and Goldman Sachs personnel who will get essentially unlimited treatment at taxpayer expense. Rich people will always be able to go offshore where the best doctors and equipment will be, anyway. But even that won't be worth so much to either group when there are no more effective antibiotics. Public Health will not - cannot pay the cost of the R&D necessary to develop new antibiotics to replace/augment the current antibiotics that are continually losing effectiveness due to ongoing mutations in the pathogens. Then it is back to 1910 or so, medically speaking, you get sick, you die.
Yes, a humongous “pay for play” scheme....
“Rich people will always be able to go offshore where the best doctors and equipment will be, anyway.”
That was my point. I’m just not sure they’ll even have to go offshore. But if so, no matter.
So then it’s not really single payer. So the middle class is left to pay for and be served by a government-controlled healthcare system (let’s call it Obamacare), and wait in line, figuratively and literally, with the poor and illegals, to get second-rate, rationed care, while the ruling class jets off to the best doctors and hospitals.
No thanks.