Single payer, while fixing some problems will just cause others.
The biggest problem with the way we purchase health care is that most Americans are not the "customer". Their employer, who actually is purchasing the employee's insurance on their behalf is. Most consumers of health care do not know the actual cost of that care, nor do they care. They are happy to remain ignorant of what things actually cost. Wouldn't it be wonderful as a consumer to be able to consume other things in this manner?
That "polls show 60% or more Americans wanted that approach before Obama Care." just demonstrates the reality that they are really part of the problem. They all want to believe that someone else will be paying for it.
Personally, "single payer" will be great for me. After my house payment, health care is my largest monthly expense. And of course, under "single payer" the income taxes I pay will go ballistic as the payment paradigm shifts from me paying an insurance company and to individual vendors for care to the state. So once I get my house paid off, I can retire early. I'll no longer have a house payment, health care, or income taxes to pay anymore. It will be up to the rest of you schlubs to work to pay for my health care.
I doubt I'll be alone in figuring that out. Exactly how viable of an economy will we have then?
