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A single payer system would enable medical providers to do preventative health care, allow for time to do teaching of whole foods diets and healthy self care.. based on understanding. Turning medicine into a business with financial goals and quotas, and selling care to the public by the "minute" is not the calling of healing and caring that medicine has always been prior.

In the old days, the healers were often themselves the test subject, and many died in service to others. No one wants to die, and if you do not have to, that is all the better, but the spirit has changed. Now its a business, and the stock in trade is your illness.

A single payer system could be both a business and a calling. It only makes sense to consolidate services, do bulk buying of supplies and controlling the costs of care. Why do we need three MRI machines in a city block? Easy, so every medical group can overcharge us for the MRI service and make the profit for themselves.

We could learn from Canada, and take the best.. but handing it over to business men and insurance companies .. is not going to make you healthy. As Bill Maher said.. there is no money in wellness, there is no money in death... the money is in the middle, half dead, drug saturated, unhealthy inpatients, who need lots of care and studies.