FranksBeau said:
They do the same in Costa Rica with the wealthy having private healthcare insurance
What happens with single payer is that the middle class -- who use to have quality healthcare insurance -- gets shoved onto the single-payer (Medicaid) and the wealthy maintain private healthcare insurance and get access to all the good doctors in a timely fashion.
So the gap between the wealthy and lower classes gets bigger as the middle class moves down a few rungs in the ladder and becomes more equal with the low income.
Before and after Obamacare I've had some crappy overpriced garbage that costs (my employer) almost as much as my rent, and I'd have to double my expense before it did anything of value. I haven't seen a doctor since I needed some vaccination to go to Costa Rica in the late 90s. I'm pretty sure before then it was a hernia operation when I was 3 or 4.
To answer your titular question in this thread (addressed it in earlier threads on the topic), *no* I don't think we're ready for it, because Vermont was all set to try it, and it didn't much get off the ground there. If it isn't taking flight in our most Scandinavian state, we might not be ready for it.