Reply #105: Still not true

[jancantor]

If a doctor doesn't want to sign on to the government's single player plan, the government can't MAKE him. Pretty much all the dr's WILL, but it's still their choice. And my point goes further. In a single payer plan, let's use france for example, you generally can't choose plans. My plan for instance covers a bunch of stuff without cost to me, that France doesn't. Other plans don't. People can choose more or less inclusive plans, and pay accordingly.

I can choose my doctor as long as he is a preferred provider for my plan. If he's not a preferred provider, I only get partial (vs. 100%) coverage. Another plan (the one I don't have) has far less doctors, one of the reasons I did NOT choose that plan. Again, there is more choice.

Again, it doesn't do the cause of single payer any good to pretend it is something that it is not. In ANY plan, there is a limiter on what you can get. Given no single payer plan, there are going to be far more choices in what plan you can choose, just like you can choose an employer partially based on what plan they offer, and/or choose better or worse private insurance.

One of the reasons I chose my employer was because I knew they offered a great plan(s). I specifically did not choose another one, because they offered inferior coverage.