Protip/PSA from an Electronic/Computer degree guy and one-time electrician: Use the
insulated pliers next time. Seriously, those electric shocks will, and I guess have, messed up your cognitive wiring.
There a number of different models around the world, with different minimum level of care, that showing single payer insurance and even full co-opting of the health care industry providing substantially better cost/benefit ratio than the US. *shrug*
I personally do not think that Britain’s system, for example, is much of a match of the US. I do not think it plays to some serious strengths of this country, and is far to large a stretch philosophically. *shrug* But there are places and opportunities well this side of that.
Now if you think so little of this country that you do not expect we could pull it off, that we are such a pile of f-ups that we cannot put together something that works? That we just could not get our act together enough to pull it off if we put our minds to it? Well, I suppose we do have Negative Nelly naysayers like you that could drag us down with self-fulfilling doomsaying. But on the balance I think better of this country than that.