Should the US adopt a single-payer health care system?

[Representative MJM]

The United States needs a single-payer system more than anything else. Health care is a basic human necessity, and the U.S. government should not stand by and allow its citizens to go into ridiculous amounts of debt just to pay for necessary procedures (or, on the other hand, have its citizens never go for procedures because they don't think that they can afford it). Free services are a must, yet even Medicare as it exists today does not cover all medical costs for seniors. We need to improve the system and let it cover all people. Obamacare was a mess from the start which could never work on the level of a single-payer system. Why are we the only advanced economy without any form of universal healthcare? It is embarrassing, frankly. Regarding the loss of jobs, the government will have to try its best to employ the people who lost their jobs. Unfortunately, this is an effect of its implementation, but it is a short-term problem compared to the long-term problem of healthcare costs.