I have private insurance with a Fortune 500 company and I am still not happy with my insurance. I still have no clue what my bill will be after each visit.

Doctor's office bills for X and Y, but insurance will only pay for X and half of Y. Then I have to fight the insurance company to pay for Y.

This back and forth between the doctor, patient, and insurance company is highly unnecessary and the only benefactor is the insurance company. One could argue that the private health insurance industry is actually causing costs to go up because doctors, hospitals, and clinics have to submit detailed medical billing codes to get properly paid for their services.

Anecdotal evidence doesn't match the actual polling.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/245195/americans-rate-healthcar...

Millions of people are about to lose their "chosen" insurance when they get fired from their jobs.

You’re wrong. In Canada and most countries with government single payer insurance you can buy private supplemental insurance that covers more elective or less necessary things the single payer doesn’t. I haven’t seen a Medicare for All proposal that bans that.

"About 27.6% of Canadians' healthcare is paid for through the private sector. This mostly goes towards services not covered or partially covered by Medicare, such as prescription drugs, dentistry and optometry. Some 75% of Canadians have some form of supplementary private health insurance; many of them receive it through their employers.[63]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Canada

If a quarter of spending is paid by private, it isn't single payer.

By that argument there isn't any single payer healthcare systems in the world.

The reality is that when people talk about "single payer" they talk about systems where the essential services are insured by a single entity, not a system without any private healthcare, because none exists.

No. You said that in Canada you can choose between the public insurer or a private insurer. You cannot. You framed this comparison incorrectly this way in order to promote the idea of a public option which is very different. In Canada everyone gets the public single payer insurance. The parts that the public single payer insurance does not cover can be covered by buying supplemental private insurance. That is not a public option scenario.

You know healthcare isn't just dental and eye exams right? Canada covers 100% of everything that isn't dental and eye exams.

Also, your insulin shot doesn't cost $1000+ in Canada either. You're a troll, bolstering false information.

Doesn't cover prescription drugs.

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