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I totally agree that a single payer system available to all would be ideal. I'd even allow private carriers to continue to operate, but they would have to offer the identical coverage and the identical cost or better. Thus if private carriers can provide the coverage at a lower cost, let them show us how they are more efficient than the government. Single payer was on the horizon with the ACA but when the administration made a deal with the insurance companies and drug companies to get them to not oppose the legislation, it killed the single payer option which was never considered by the committees writing the bill. Progressives were not happy.