Far-left Democrats are in the early stages of a push for a government-run healthcare system in the U.S.

For example, during the confirmation hearing for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. last week, everybody’s favorite socialist, Senator Bernie Sanders, said that during the testimony he “had not heard one word about the need [in America] for universal healthcare that exists in every country on earth.”
The push began in the wake of the assassination of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson. In response to that, Sanders claimed that “what you have seen rising up is people’s anger at a health insurance industry which denies people the healthcare that they desperately need while they make billions and billions of dollars in profit.” Many of the usual suspects, such as Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also chimed in. Rep. Ro Khana stated that the assassination shows the U.S. needs “Medicare for All.”
What these Democrats want in the U.S. is a single-payer system, much like the one in Canada. Under a single-payer system, the government is the primary, if not only, payer for healthcare services. Hospitals and doctors must follow government edicts, or they don’t get paid.
To counter this, Republicans and conservatives need to make the case against single-payer. A good place to start is with one of its foremost advocates, Wendell Potter. Potter was vice president of corporate communications for insurer CIGNA when, in 2008, he had a crisis of conscience and resigned.
In an op-ed about the murder of Thompson, Potter claimed one reason he left CIGNA was “that shareholders, not patient outcomes, tend to drive decisions at for-profit health insurance companies.” For the mainstream media, he is the go-to critic of the U.S. health system. After all, what better spokesman for government-run healthcare than an insurance industry apostate?
Potter now runs the Center for Health and Democracy from which he is peddling false hope. He praises Canada “where there are no co-pays,...