skeeter
Many would agree that single-payer is the way to go. Heck I might be one of them. But just because police and fire work well as taxpayer-funded doesn’t mean everything would be better off as taxpayer-funded. For example, life insurance is not taxpayer-funded. People go out and buy it on their own. System seems to work well. Same for automobile insurance. People don’t get it from the government. They go buy it themselves. Also seems to work well.
Another concern is quality. Let’s look at grade schools. Taxpayers pay for public school. If a parent thinks the taxpayer funded school is adequate, she sends her children there. If she believes the public school to be inadequate, she sends her children to a private school if she can afford it.
My concern is if we have a single-payer healthcare system, the wealthy will find the system inadequate. They will then pay for medical care out of pocket. And then we’ve got a big problem. The poor don’t get the quality care that the rich get.
I don’t have the answer. But I’m not convinced single-payer is the perfect solution.