re: Single-payer would be a nightmare for Americans

I don't know that it would be successful here, but to assume that it would be either a success or a failure without a fair and honest survey of countries that do have single payer systems is a waste of thought.

A friend of mine that, due to his line of work, has many European colleagues recently hosted a discussion about the opinions of those colleagues related to health care. Those in single payer systems were almost unanimously satisfied with the level of care compared to their experiences with other systems.

Of course, we could easily find a way to screw up any health care system, so I don't base my curiosity about single payer solely on those sort of informal discussions. I do consider it as valuable input though.