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Well, the main counterexample to that would be....nearly every national health care system everywhere in the developed world. Virtually every Western developed country has a single-payer health system to cover all (or very nearly all) medical services, and they all have price lists for services. Results vary somewhat from country to country, but nearly all of them have a pretty well-functioning health care sector that keeps the population generally healthy without acute shortages.
Because the compensation structure in Europe is vastly different than what we have here. You've spent the entire thread arguing against upending that.
With single-payer, the idea is that just like all the enrollees, all of the providers will have to get into the same pool as well. You won't have a situation where it's viable for too many doctors to drop out of the program, because all of their customers will be in the program.
We're not talking about Single payer. We're talking about Medicare. You're conflating the two.
Medicare /= single payer in today's system. If you impose price controls on Medicare providers, you'll have fewer of them.
You won't ever get every single provider in the United States "into the same pool". There will concierge doctors who operate outside of any single payer system...unless you're willing to outlaw that and essentially force medical providers to work for the government. That's not going to fly on any number of grounds.
