Yes, but we also want universal healthcare. What we don't want is only universal healthcare with death panels like the UK and Canada has. Give us universal health care where we can also get insurance if we want, and we'll vote it in. That's never what comes up though. I firmly believe we could gut medicare/medicaid and the savings from the bureaucratic administration costs alone could pay for universal healthcare.
Note that Massachusetts and San Francisco have universal healthcare. Mass. is also home to one of the best healthcare systems and children’s hospital in the word.
UK/CA healthcare sounds like hell. Every doctor is under the government, so even if you have money for a procedure the government doesn't want to cover, you can't get it done. And of course because there is no rationing by price there is rationing by time, so you end up with 13mo waits for an MRI.
Leaving aside the subjective impressions, the objective parts of that description are only accurate for CA, not UK, healthcare; the UK has optional add-on private insurance and care on top of the universal public system.
