Single payer works, and works well in most countries where it is deployed. Nothing made my humans is perfect, including services. We are Americans, can do, and can do better. Make America greater with positive actions instead of negative attitudes.
Canada's problems are not based on single payer, but on failure to invest in both education for healthcare providers and facilities.
The purpose for single payer is not price controls, but elimination of duplicative administrative costs and a unified negotiating arm for consumers, the latter blocked by lobbyists from big Pharma and medical device sellers. So let's cut the propaganda crap about Canada and fear of consumer strength against predatory money makers at the expense of Americans under the ploy of capitalism.
A healthy America is a strong, productive America, a desire for true capitalists and those who serve to defend this nation. We need to completely revamp our attitudes toward health care from prenatal care and planning, to end of life with dignity. Our bodies are temples, and if we don't teach our children to worship and respect our bodies as gifts from god, with respect for diet and exercise, we are doomed to silly arguments and ill health, as well as not being capable to produce in the world markets and maintain our own defense as our future soldiers will be too damn fat to move.
Political partisan whines are not the answers we need. You want to reduce the cost of healthcare, reduce the need at its source, the health of our children with preventative maintenance, our most important investment for the future no matter political bent.
