Should America Replace Private Insurance With Medicare for All?

“I'm British and have lived in the US for 36 years, so I feel qualified to present the facts. No one in the UK has to worry about a medical bill or going to see a doctor. What no one tells you here in the US is that you can buy private insurance in the UK. It's not all or nothing. You pay into the system just like you pay into social security. I will retire back to the UK, as the last thing I want to worry about is medical bills. The system in the UK is not perfect. 99% of the people that are against single payer healthcare have never lived anywhere outside the US.”

“The US spent $4.5 trillion on healthcare in 2022 — more than $13,000 per person — yet 32 million remained uninsured. Administrative overhead alone consumes 34 cents of every private-insurance dollar; Canada's single-payer spends 12 cents. M4A's administrative savings alone could cover the uninsured.”

“Independent analyses estimate M4A at $30–40 trillion in new federal spending over ten years. Financing it requires roughly doubling federal income taxes or equivalent revenue — a political and economic constraint that no serious M4A proposal has resolved without painful tradeoffs.”

“The US produces 40% of the world's new drugs and medical devices, driven by the profit incentives of a competitive market. Single-payer systems in Europe and Canada routinely delay access to cutting-edge treatments that US patients get first. Eliminating private insurance removes the pricing signal that drives pharmaceutical R&D.”