> It's also how single-payer healthcare works in the majority of countries that have it. Only a couple of countries actually have single-payer healthcare[0].

> It's also how single-payer healthcare works in the majority of countries that have it. Only a couple of countries actually have single-payer healthcare[0]. For those that do, treatment for complex, expensive conditions like cancer is regulated by the government much more strictly than in the US, with the result that patients have far fewer options for (covered) treatment. Incidentally, those countries, like the UK, tend to have dramatically worse cancer survival outcomes than the US does. [0] The UK (if we ignore the divisions between the NHS in England, Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland) is one of the only ones.