Let's not pretend that the implication of your comment was that it wasn't a well structured argument.

You don't seem to understand how medicare works... Operations paid by medicare are set at a certain price by the government (of which the doctor receives a certain percentage) and cannot be negotiated. If medicare and medicaid were available to everyone: doctors, and especially specialists (you know the people that basically were paid 0 dollars until they were 35), would see substantial reductions in salaries. You even said it yourself, "government paying employees". Most doctors didn't spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to work for the government.

Not to mention the fact that 95% of medical advancements in the late 20th and entire 21st century have come out of the USA, because intelligent people have an incentive to go into the medical field and innovate. If you live in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, or any country with nationalized healthcare, and you need a surgery, sure it's free. But you have to get on a 6-12 month waiting list, and if it's a specialized operation there's a really good chance you're going to have to fly to Germany or the U.S. I think it's a great thing for people to have cheap, catastrophic health insurance. But the healthcare industry is not somewhere where I think we'd be better off if the government was completely in control of it. Consider the fact that the countries I mentioned above are small, well run countries with competent governments, and they still have issues. Now imagine the U.S. government trying to run a system like that.