Paying for health insurance

westernrvparkowner wrote:
Why would anyone assume a single payer system would be cheaper or better? All that would happen is the costs would be born by Taxpayers. All those employer paid plans, which cover 80+ percent of the population would go away and taxes would rise significantly to cover the costs of shifting medical coverage to the government. Your choices would go away and you would get whatever the government decided you should have. Sure, some of us older than the average working person, yet not old enough for Medicare might surf the change and make out fine. But for the bulk of the population it wouldn't be a net advantage, more like taking the money out of the left pocket to pay instead of the right.
Fact is, insuring people in their 50s and 60s, a large number of whom need to buy their own insurance because they are not working (often due to medical reasons) is very expensive. The only way those costs go down is to cut the care they currently receive or drastically change the medical system, neither of which is actually being discussed. Anyone who thinks there is a simple, or even a complex, solution that doesn't hurt as many people as it helps is living in a dreamworld.

You are wrong sir. Look up the facts. The US spends far more per capita on health care than any other industrialized country and has worse results. People going bankrupt because they get sick. That is immoral. The same for people afraid to take children to medical care because they can't afford it. Single payer universal coverage is proven to lower costs and provide better care for all the nation's population. I don't know any insurance company execs that have cured a single patient.