You left out alot in your definition.
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No, I didn't, and you should read your own link. If you believe 3., then you must also accept that unregulated free market capitalism is a transitional stage to imperialism and fascist dictatorship. What we're talking about, what has worked best and how the American people and the American dream has thrived, is with a mixed economy.
Anyone who comes to the US for healthcare is coming for procedures that you, as an American, aren't getting unless you're rich and paying big money for. Like plastic surgery. Like heart-lung transplants. Rightwingers put forth a bogus tale during the healthcare debate about a Canadian PM who came to the US for "life-saving cancer surgery" because she couldn't get it in Canada. It was total BS. What she came to the US for was elaborate breast reconstructive plastic surgery after she underwent a life-saving mastectomy in Canada. She paid for it just as any American would have to pay for it.
The SinglePayerUniversalHealthcare system wouldn't put the insurance industry out of business by the way. It would be a two-tiered system: Basic coverage for everyone and boutique coverage for those willing to pay for it. So nobody has to worry about poor Big Insurance and Pharma -- There will be work for all. Big Insurance and Pharma would just had to have made smarter gambles, with no taxpayer bailouts.
And instead of the lower costs that taxpayers were promised from decades of subsidizing PhRma's research and development going to support emerging markets overseas, we would enjoy the fruits of what we invested in these pharmaceutical miracle drugs. Our government, PhRma's biggest customer, should be able to negotiate lower prices on drugs, but both Bush and Obama prevented that from happening.
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