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I don't think you can claim that it's not needed just because a 'large percentage' of the population is well-served. The United States' population is over 313 million people according to the last census. Would you be okay with 3 million people dying or living in perpetual poverty because they don't have access to preventative/emergency care? Politicians in the US regularly make a fuss about things that affect less than 3 million people.

Now, you can argue that any government-run single payer system would have 'marginal benefit', but you'd have to work pretty hard to do worse than what we have now for those people.



> Would you be okay with 3 million people dying or living in perpetual poverty because they don't have access to preventative/emergency care?

Obviously not, which is why I said that it is right that the government should step into those kinds of situations.

But now let's picture 3 million people for which private insurance works fine. Why should the government take over their insurance?




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