Not that you accused me of this, but I didn’t say it couldn’t work. Was just pointing out that Republicans would prefer to privatize (almost) everything to prov

Not that you accused me of this, but I didn’t say it couldn’t work. Was just pointing out that Republicans would prefer to privatize (almost) everything to provide some background for the parent. To give my personal opinion, if given only choices on the poles (fully private vs single-payer), I’d vote for single-payer. And I’d actually do it because I think the ROI would be enormous, though difficult to quantify. I do think it’s tricky (at best) to have health care fully private because the profit motivation can be cut throat. Maybe you’re right though it could be private but with heavy regulation (sort of sounds like what we have today though for working-age people). And you didn’t say regulate it but I’d have a hard time agreeing private could work without regulation.