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I'll give a different position. There's something to be said for the US being great at medical innovation and having more access to cutting edge treatments. But we also shouldn't kid ourselves that the US is an example of free market healthcare. When you look at how much money the US spends on government provided healthcare, it actually looks like a European country.

This would mean that in order to have a truly European single payer model of healthcare, all the US would need to do is to combine Medicare, Medicaid, the VA, and all the other subsidies into one system that includes everyone. In the process, we'd make retirees have worse healthcare and we'd have to start prioritizing what we fund like the Brits do, but my major point here is that the US already has government spending on healthcare that is similar to the Euros.

This isn't to mention all the regulations that the US has. It is much more difficult to become a doctor in the US than in say Germany.