The US Deficit--What if we Nationalized our health care system and created Single payer system?

To expand on my US Deficit/Health Care Reform Thread...

My friends on the left support nationalizing the health care system and creating a single payer system like Canada or the UK.  

A position which Obama and Democrat leaders wrote off from the start--another of oh so many examples that show how absurd the claim that the Democratic leadership are controlled by the liberal wing of their party is!

Not to mention the left--Greens, socialists, et al who find the Democratic Parties center-right policies far too conservative.

Though I personally thought a reasonable compromise would be to create a strong public option its useful to look at our long term deficits in this scenario as well for good context.

Here's the US Deficit if health care costs aligned with the UK's health care system---which is very popular in the UK, as was noted earlier this year in the Financial Times: Health Attacks rile Britons.

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