Reply #39: It is centrist, yes.

[Oregone]

A more leftist position would be putting doctors on a public salary, rather than a fee for service salary (and socializing their facilities). That would be socializing health care, instead of socializing insurance (which single-payer does). This reform really does neither to any significant scale.

Single-payer doesn't even concern itself with the delivery. That is why it will start to eventually fail in Canada and Europe in the next two decades, because the budgets will be strained. More of these countries will incrementally experiment with acquiring private health assets for the public good and paying doctors salaries directly for some services. The US actually already does this for veterans already.