[dragonwriter]

> I despise that the federal government didn't eliminate health insurance companies entirely and move to single payer through Medicare.

Medicare isn't single payer. Its actually very similar to the ACA exchange system, only with a public option alongside private options (all of which must offer at least as much coverage as the public option, and which are partially publicly subsidized for people choosing them instead of the public option.)

(And, in the case of prescription drugs, with a big hole in the public option, for which, if you want coverage, you either have to reject the public option or purchase a publicly-subsized private plan to cover that hole on top of the public plan.)

Medicare was a single payer system, back before most of the people posting on HN were alive.