Hindsite who does not understand how single payer insurance works said......
Then there would be no choice or competition at all. That is called a monopoly.
No its not. Medicare is a single payer system and I can't turn my television on without seeing yet another company trying to get my medicare dollars. Canada is a single payer system of sorts and it has a thriving competition for those dollars.
That is not the best answer and neither is Obamacare. I believe Capitalism and the market base system is best for healthcare, except for those that actually need welfare. I believe we must make sure there is much competition in the healthcare industry in every part of the country.
We tried it your way. Here is what happened.
1. The insurance companies denied coverage to anyone who needed it.
2. The insurance companies got the federal government to insure all of the sick and old people they did not want to cover.
3. We pay a higher percentage of our GDP than any other country BY FAR and do not cover even close to everyone. We pay more individually than in any developed country.
4. The so-called free market system brought us horrible outcomes. Our people do not even know what good health care looks like.
5. There is absolutely no way you are going to get free market health care and the republicans are not even thinking of offering it. Their bill is a sham. It does not open markets. It does not even allow the federal government to negotiate drug prices.
6. There are however a lot of monumentally stupid people who have been fooled but their sellout to lobbying money and the wealthy.
Perhaps, what you really mean is that I don't understand politics.