Have you and PoS not noticed that the rest of the developed world manages to do this at lower cost and with better health outcomes? You do realize you are echoing Reagan's absurdities about Medicare in 1960, don't you? We already have national health insurance, covering (I believe) over 100 million of us, from the free market-like ACA to the commie-like VA.
Here's the conclusion of what Reagan said about Medicare: "If you don’t, this program I promise you, will pass just as surely as the sun will come up tomorrow and behind it will come other federal programs that will invade every area of freedom as we have known it in this country until one day as Normal Thomas said we will wake to find that we have socialism, and if you don’t do this and I don’t do this, one of these days we are going to spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children, what it once was like in America when men were free."
Later on, he suggested that he supported some other plan proposed when he attacked Medicare legislation, and he did mention an alternative, the old "give the money to the states and let them do it" film flam.
This is the way it works: 1- conservatives say the sky is falling when a liberal program is proposed: Social Security, Workers Comp., whatever; 2- they perform a valued service by checking the crazier parts of our liberal ideas that may be part of the legislation; 3- they accept what is passed, but say the next thing proposed will make the sky fall. Wash, rinse, repeat, as the saying goes.
