It’s possible that there could be some boutique secondary private insurance market, like what compliments the NHS in the UK, although I think given the vast, pr

It’s possible that there could be some boutique secondary private insurance market, like what compliments the NHS in the UK, although I think given the vast, predatory behavior of US health insurance companies, it’s better that they’re just done away with. It’s not as if they haven’t show themselves to be bad actors, preying on the vulnerable as much as is legally possible, time and time again. Costs and the barrier to care they impose are primary problem in the US. Mixed systems perform far worse at controlling them (look at the history of South Africa’s transition to a mixed system as an example). Given how far things have gone with costs in the US, I don’t see how a “public option” would resolve them, short of the kind of literal government price setting as is done in Japan, in which case, a single payer system is more efficient anyway.