Quote Originally Posted by Xiahou View Post
Single-payer, socialized medicine would not be my favored choice. I think it would almost certainly, however, lower the astronomical growth of medical costs. Would it lower them enough to make them sustainable? I doubt it- not without rationing. Regardless, Obamacare != single-payer healthcare. It is increasing costs. And it makes most of our problems worse.
I'll point out that the US are beaten by a lot of countries in life length, child mortality, etc, etc, running around with 50-70% of the costs. To be fair the americans might be sicker than the rest, but that rationing does seem to work better than yours.

And Obamacare looks this way because the Republicans decided to think like you. The earlier versions were quite a bit stronger towards single-payer socialized medicine.