Reply #28: Of course private insurance will look better on paper.

[Oregone]

But they will deny claims and will not honor their commitment to people. Not to mention, itll look better on the TV advertisements theyll have the money to brainwash consumers with.

Single payer healthcare is only effective when you do not leave the option of opting out, and EVERYONE contributes to it progressively according to their income level. If you still allow the richest people to opt out, you are losing the greatest source of income for the system, bankrupting and crippling it from the beginning. And yes, I feel the richer should pay more to contribute to the health of the workers in the contry that contribute to the economy that makes them wealthy.

Multi-Tiered systems naturally bankrupt the public end, as well as providing different levels of health care, which is contradictory to the notion that everyone has an equal, universal right to the same level of health care.