Quote Originally Posted by Bong30
So if Competition will give us the best product (ie health care, cars, widgets) whatever...

Who is Single payer health care the best for? We know its not us!
I would think that a single payer system would be best for anyone in this country who does not feel like funding a completely corrupt and ethically challenged industry. The health care industry in America is fucking twisted and is obviously not working in the way Adam Smith would have liked it to have run. Decent, affordable health care in this country is a myth and because of this thousands of people die every year from easily preventable illnesses. Now I believe that keeping a significant portion of this country alive and healthy is an important matter of domestic security and as such the responsibility of the federal government. I do not see what is so hard to understand about this concept. As long as the insurance companies continue to make decisions based solely on their profit margins there will never be affordable health care in this country.

I think you need to decide whether your particular political ideology is more important than the well being of your fellow country men.

Can you also please explain why single payer systems are so terrible when they work so well for every other country who uses them?