What’s Your Problem with Single-Payer Health Insurance?

My guess is that, with single payer health care, health care costs would rather quickly snap into line with global averages.

Afraid this would limit your choice in medical care? Hardly. I’ve never met a skilled practitioner of anything who won’t take cash. 

Can’t afford to pay cash? Ok. I’m sure you’d be able to find a private insurance plan that will give you the choice you want. 

Can’t afford private insurance? I bet your employer will still offer private insurance benefits that will give you that choice.
Your employer doesn’t offer health care benefits–or, you’re not employed? You’re fucked now anyway. If there were single payer health care, you may not have much choice, but at least you’d be able to see a doctor.

The “single-payer reduces choice” argument is dumb. You don’t have choice now without you or your employer paying for it.

Single-payer health care would lower overall healthcare costs across the board, giving you even more choice than you have now. Because it would all be cheaper, you would be able to afford more options. And, if you don’t go to the doctor much or you’re not a choice fanatic, you’d make more money at your job because the employer expense of providing insurance could be transferred to actual wages or salary.
And for the choice fanatics–if you or someone you love has ever been truly sick, you know that choice stops the minute you have a substantial claim. Private insurance by default denies every large claim. You have to fight them hard to get the choice you thought you had anyway.

So, what’s the problem with single-payer health care?