I can only compare to Norway, which is not single payer but socialized kind of like NHS. But it is in no way as complicated and inconvenient as people in the U

I can only compare to Norway, which is not single payer but socialized kind of like NHS. But it is in no way as complicated and inconvenient as people in the US seem to think. I can go directly to a specialist in the private sector at short notice and pay out of pocket if I like. That costs about 100 dollars. If I need to go frequently I can simple buy extra private health insurance which doesn't cost a lot, since they don't have to cover all that much given that they can utilize the existing public health care. Lots of companies already offer this in Norway. Anyway then you typically visit your GP to get a referral but that is done very quickly, and is really just a formality. I can go the same day and spent a couple of minutes to do that. Then I can go to a specialist covered by my private insurance on short notice. I think the private/public divide we got in Norway works quite well. Public health care usually handles well most health care needs in a timely fashion and with good quality. The problem is usually things like elective surgery where there can be long waiting times. But these cases are handled quite well by the private sector. You can pay for private health insurance to handle those cases. That is cheap because there are really just clinics open from 9 to 5, which does surgery, then transport you to a public hospital for recovery afterwards. That makes their operations cheap as they don't need to be open 24/7 and don't need their own emergency care, ambulances etc. All that is handled by the public sector.