> Universal care is no different. If your surgery is deemed unnecessary, you really have no chance at getting it. There is no reason to have it exclusively. Ha

> Universal care is no different. If your surgery is deemed unnecessary, you really have no chance at getting it. There is no reason to have it exclusively. Having single-payer healthcare with mandatory participation for residents does not preclude existence of healtcare providers that are outside of that system. Although it is likely that such providers would be just a small part, as for patients it would have zero monetary marginal cost to use providers that are part of system, so they would likely use providers outside of the system as a last resort or if there are significant non-monetary cost.