I think context is important. As a US citizen I agree with the general sentiment that the US government isn't competent to run healthcare. Comparisons with Canada and the UK are not helpful because they are different kinds of governments. The notion in the US that government should be as small as possible has yielded a government which cannot be trusted.
The proponents of a single payer system in the US don't address this sufficiently.
A solution for the US would be reform of the health insurance market. Require that health insurance providers be disallowed to refuse coverage to individuals for any reason. Disallow health care providers from charging lower rates to health insurance providers than they do to individual payers.
A free market would work. A single payer system would work. What we have now is in between and will always be bad.
That's a good point. I have no experience with VA hospitals. If it is true then I think it would be reasonable to endorse expanding the VA infrastructure to support everybody.
Some VA facilities are well run, some aren't. (And some are a mix - Walter Reed, which is where CongressCritters go, had some horrific wards as of a couple of years ago.)
The Indian Health Care service, on the other hand, is a complete horrorshow.
The proponents of a single payer system in the US don't address this sufficiently.
A solution for the US would be reform of the health insurance market. Require that health insurance providers be disallowed to refuse coverage to individuals for any reason. Disallow health care providers from charging lower rates to health insurance providers than they do to individual payers.
A free market would work. A single payer system would work. What we have now is in between and will always be bad.