[jmacusa]

Universal basic income will ensure that in short order we will be universally and basically screwed.

[arthurus]

Single Payer will screw the middle class of the whole world. Presently they can maybe get to the USA when they can't get treatment in their home countries. When US Health Care goes, well...

When USA goes to S.P. then research will peter out because then it becomes another cost to be balanced with Defense and the Dole and all the other things the government pays for and politically not the most important cost. When research ends, antibiotics gradually reach the ends of their useful lives then are not replaced after which Medicine is back to 1910 or so i.e. you get sick you die.