Ah — the usual wingnut talking point about how things are so crappy in countries with any kind of universal healthcare system.
OK, prove it. You might be able to come up with a single horror story here and there, but one can do that for healthcare here in this country, too — and more of them.
And show me the proof that people in the UK, in France, in Japan, in Canada, in ANY country with universal healthcare are positively screaming to have a system like we have in the United States — where you can get excellent healthcare but only if you can afford it.
Now — about those “bureaucratic panels”? You claim we don’t have them, but we do. They’re called insurance companies. And before the ACA, they had whole departments of people whose job it was to deny your claim for a procedure for whatever reason they could, because it’s better for them when they don’t have to pay out money. After my late husband reached Medicare age and I hadn’t, we discovered that our doctor found it a lot easier to get authorization for his medical procedures from Medicare (you know, that evil government system with death panels) than it was to get authorization for mine through my private insurance company.
Oh, and by the way — most doctors won’t do knee or hip replacements for the morbidly obese here in this country, either. There’s a sound medical reason for that — too much weight borne by a new knee or hip can impede recovery, and even cause the replacement to fail.