Quote:Yep. If you want to see how single payer has worked in the US, just look at the VA. It's kind of pathetic that the socialists were touting it as a successful example of a US single payer system ... until the truth came out.

Singlepayer works well in other mixed economies. The Dutch Netherlands are a good model. The system can work, if you get the corporate lobbyists and swamp monsters out of Washington.

<a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/in-the-literature/2008/may/universal-mandatory-health-insurance-in-the-netherlands--a-model-for-the-united-states'>http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/in-the-literature/2008/may/universal-mandatory-health-insurance-in-the-netherlands--a-model-for-the-united-states</a>



Growing dissatisfaction with "top-down" health care rationing policies—criticized for their inability to promote efficiency and innovation—led to broad support for incentive-based reform. In 1987, a government-appointed group of advisors proposed a national health care system based on market-driven reform.


Over the next two decades, the Dutch government worked to lay a foundation for merging competition with universal access to health care. For example, the new system required a system of risk equalization to prevent insurers from seeking only young, healthy customers. Additional reforms included developing a pricing system that would discourage physicians from providing inferior care; determining how to measure quality and outcomes; and arming consumers with more information about the price and quality of insurers and providers.

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