Well, it&#x27;s certainly not a valid area for market economics to address, since everyone is forced to participate by virtue of being mortal.  Single-payer is probably the optimum model for any advanced society, regardless of its political alignment.<p>The thing is, our glorious capitalistic, market-based health care system already costs us as much as a single-payer system would.  We just don&#x27;t get the benefits.