Bernie never spoke about banning private healthcare.<p>I find it amusing you think there is a free market for healthcare in the US.<p>Bernie&#x27;s main idea is to destroy all forms of monopoly in various industries in the US - banks,healthcare. It&#x27;s no different than state capitalism ( in USSR ).<p>Bernie is not against the free market. He wants single payer to leverage the free market in healthcare which is dominated by big players on the supply side.<p>You as an individual are free to afford whatever you want. But the govt&#x27;s concern is improve the standard of living for the average citizen. And all of the world it has been proven time and again that single payer is the best system - empirically. So any arguments you make without any data but on some notion of &quot;choice&quot; will not be as convincing - sorry.