> They pay little, but there was an instance where one of their physicians had to appeal to insurance to get a scan done (thankfully the insurance acquiesced). It doesn't make sense and all this debate around single payer healthcare is just obfuscation and distraction from investigating actual solutions.

Single payer is literally a complete solution to the problem you’re mentioning before.

So why is it obfuscation and distraction? Especially when single payer systems in Europe have proven to have better outcomes at a fraction of the cost?

I find the thought process here fascinating. Single Payer, which is actually delivering results in nearly every other developed country is an “obfuscation” and we need to find “actual solutions”. Doing what every other country that doesn’t seem to have the problem in question is not an “actual solution”. No, we must invent one out of thin air or it doesn’t count.

This seems like a Not Invented Here syndrome taken to its extreme.