Reply #1: you're exactly correct unfortunately the insurance companies have [View All]

a huge club at the ready and we'd need to throw them a bone. But the facts back you up: the United States spends approximately 14% of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) on health care while Canada spends about 10% using single payer. The Congressional Budget Office calculated that implementing single-payer in 1991 would have saved the country $225 billion by 2004.
The problem is most Americans have been brainwashed into believing the US has the premier medical system in the world which is simply hogwash if you look at access to medical care and indices like the cost of insurance and the infant mortality rate. What it does have are some of the most sophisticated surgical technology for which the lucky few pay a premium.