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[Music] many people think our countries should move to a single-payer system of health care this basically means the government pays for all care by raising taxes advocates of a single-payer system believe it would cover more people at a lower cost but there's a fundamental problem with the single-payer model to expand coverage to more people the government has no choice but to reduce access to certain drugs procedures and doctors that we now enjoy we can learn from the experience of the single-payer model in the UK Sweden and elsewhere in Europe the wait times for diagnostic procedures doctor appointments chemotherapy and surgery are so long that their governments have turned to private care sometimes even private care in other countries and then there's the issue of health outcomes because of the long wait times to receive treatment and restricted access to specialist medications and medical technology health outcomes and single-payer systems are worse in the u.s. for almost all seri