Why can’t single-payer and private insurance co-exist?

[AN63093]

8 posts in and no one bothered to point out that it appears the OP does not know what single-payer means.  Based on the other posts in this thread, it would further appear that no one else does either.

Now if the question is "why can't universal health coverage and private insurance co-exist" then the answer is, of course, that there is no reason why they can't.

[AN63093]

OK fine, I take back my comment in regards to you.  But as the OP seems to be conflating a single-payer health system with a program like SNAP and doesn't seem to recognize the rather obvious differences.. well forgive me, but I'm going to be skeptical until proven otherwise.  There are a litany of other inaccurate statements in this thread, and despite your comment that you think people on here know the difference, that has not been my experience- going back years, whenever health care comes up on Atlas, the level of discussion is quite... low.. e.g., I can count on one hand the number of times that someone here actually demonstrated that they knew there was a difference between single-payer and multi-payer (actually I can count it on one finger)… so I feel no reason to abandon my general skepticism.  But I did say "no one".. so I suppose replace that with "no one but GP270watch."