I guess the new liberal position is that single payer can't just get through Congress (probably true!) but is too expensive. Okay.
America's dirty little secret is we spend more public money as % of GDP (Medicare, Medicaid, VA, and now Obamacare subsidies) than many comparable (Yurpean) countries. Then double that (roughly) by adding in the private expenditures. If only there were some models of health care provision that we could emulate...
