Stop making stuff up. The arguments for universal coverage really do not depend on you attributing positions to me that I do not actually hold.
So far, no universal coverage scheme has been proposed for the US that does not sinply shift the approval authority from private insurace companies to a goverment agency. Under the current "system", I have some choice. Under all of the proposed universal systems that have a chance of passing, I have zero choice. That I prefer some choice over no choice does not mean I wouldn't prefer complete choice over some choice.
Again, choices are now made based on profit motive, not the best interests of the patient. The only way to have "choice" in the American system is to 1) have a significant amount of money and 2) be healthy.
If you are missing one or both of these elements, you are 100% dependent on finding an employer to give you coverage or you're just **** out of luck.
Under a single payer system you still have the choice of doctors and other medical service providers, it just turns out that the government doesn't have a choice to NOT cover your needs in the vast, VAST majority of situations.
And if we adopt a system similar to Germany's, you can still take your hard earned dollars and buy whatever health care you want from high-end providers.
This "choice" nonsense is another vapid canard.
Illegal aliens generally (alomst exclusively) are lower income earners and would disproportionatly benefit from any universal coverage system. Effectively, they would have free health care at my expense, both in terms of cost and availability. Charge them the highest rates or deny them coverage. If you care enough about them as people, then fix our immigration mess. Don't simply add another incentive (free health care) for them to hop the border.
Who do you think pays for their coverage when they receive treatment at a hospital today? That cost is reflected in your premiums.
It is more expensive for society, and in turn you, me, and anyone earning more than the lowest earning workers, to deny them coverage out of some sort of zenophobic principle of "others" getting your money, than it is to just cover them. They're obtaining the most expensive emergency care possible, and you're paying for it through premiums.
But you're basically providing an argument for denying poor people medical insurance. Very little is different between that level of labor if you're legal or illegal. The only substantial divergence with respect to health care is that the illegals will put off any needed medical check-ups and procedures until it's an emergency situation. So setting aside the economic argument (which you are, of course, completely wrong about), I don't particularly care how much it costs, any modern, humane society should provide medical coverage to all of its citizens.
America is the only Western nation that doesn't and we pay twice as much per capita as the others. Pathetic.
