Quote (bogie160 @ May 25 2016 12:14am)
So like America?
I'm not sure what the love is with single payer systems. They're clearly inefficient, and we have the opportunity to do so much better.
What opportunity? Singapore is an incredibly wealth city-state with a model of social welfare that is not feasible for anywhere else on the planet. Anyone who cannot afford education, health care, or any other essential societal service has it paid for by the government. Singapore has a much more developed social welfare system then any socialist/communist state on the planet, and significantly more than the US. Are you saying you want to emulate that?
The US bureaucracy is the model of inefficiency. If single-payer systems are inefficient, what do you define the American system as? I'll give you a few more adjectives: backwards, corrupt, feeble, incapable. I'd argue a single-payer system isn't even possible in the US due to the level of corruption and partisanship that exists at all levels of American government. American governance structures are worse than many newly-industrialized countries.