I support a single-payer approach, largely simply because the biggest risk pool spreads the risk most evenly, but I think we have to be very careful with the word "right". I agree that basic medical care can be considered a right, in the sense that a wealthy society, which we are, is morally obliged to provide it to its least fortunate. But there has to be a limit to what counts as "basic"; if we don't impose one, we're going to wind up with even worse cost inflation than we have now.

The rich will have better health care even in a single-payer system, and I'm fine with that.

The thing I really don't want is the pre-ACA system, where only people with good jobs can get access to health care.

BTW I saw a great Yonatan Zunger blog post on this a while back... ah, here it is: https://healthcareinamerica.us/how-to-ask-good-questions-abo...