>the one where middle income employees pay healthcare for all the poor and incapable That about sums up the US system... I don't particularly like the idea of

>the one where middle income employees pay healthcare for all the poor and incapable That about sums up the US system... I don't particularly like the idea of the federal government getting their grubby fingers into more than they are constitutionally mandated to, but a single-payer system could cut out the byzantine insurance coding and billing bureaucracy that causes medical costs to be completely arbitrary and opaque.