If the government ran healthcare, old people would die. The leftwing socialists seem to think it's a total waste of time and money to treat older people for cancer and other diseases. Right now, people get private insurance and they get treatment. If the government decided what treatment people were allowed to get, they would do like Obama recommended and just hand them pain pills. It's like if they are just retired and living off pensions or retirement savings, then they aren't contributing enough and don't deserve to exist. The aptly-named 'death panels' would have denied care for people 75 and older.
Right now, people have choices. Even people from other countries have come here because they don't have near the options that we do. Of course, the wealthy dictators come more often because, being typical tyrants, they believe they are entitled to anything and everything even as they deny things to the masses.
America was always about giving the people control over their own lives. The left wants to change that so government bureaucrats can make all your decisions for you. They'll take the attitude that they are paying and so they get to call the shots.
There will be no more options for anything if the left has their way. America was the last hope for many who wanted to experience true freedom and liberty. The left does not appreciate these things, except for themselves. Liberty means the right to own a gun. Liberty means you can protect your own rights if the need arises and that includes standing up to tyrants in government. Freedom means that bureaucrats aren't breathing down your back. It means fair laws but not the thousands of oppressive on the books, like not being able to save rain water for your garden or having property that government can seize on a whim. The taxes they impose are designed to take away our property and freedom if we are unable to keep up with them. Lose your house if those property taxes get too high. You never really own anything because it can all be taken away. They can clean out your bank account without charging or convicting you of any crime if you put too much cash in the bank at once or have too much cash on you.
The left wants to take control of healthcare beause they need to in order to destroy America and rebuild a socialist hellhole in it's place. They dream of a world where they are the supreme rulers. Their followers have been duped into believing that things would be better for all. They won't. Socialism, communism and Marxism end in disaster and suffering every ******* time.
Allowing government to go to single payer is just another step toward being ruled by tyrants. Anyone who thinks they'd stop there is just fooling themselves.
Government knows how to confiscate things, not create things. And people will stop creating when they become slaves to government.