Do Americans want single payer healthcare?

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Meaning a European or Canadian style model where everyone pays the same. Statistically it costs less and delivers better outcomes for the society as a whole where it has been tried. As suggested by Bernie Sanders.

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MartinII · 70-79, M

I think this question is an over-simplification. So far as I know, all European countries have some combination of state-funded and personally-funded healthcare. In the UK, which obviously I know best, everone is entitled to free (ie taxpayer-funded) healthcare (except that most people have to pay a fixed charge for prescriptions) but there is also a substantial private sector in which people choose to pay for their treatment, usually through health insurance. This works up to a point, but the NHS is under heavy pressure, for various reasons, and it’s at least arguable that overall outcomes would be better if more people were encouraged to pay directly for the services they receive. I have no ideological preference for one system over another. All that matters, it seems to me, is what is likely to produce the best results.