We do not have universal single-payer but we have a few very large government-run single-payer systems.
If you have an example of a country with a single program that has more effective outcomes for a population of similar makeup and size, that would be a useful comparison.
The US has not one but two of the largest single payer health insurance programs in the world.
Medicare alone has more people enrolled than any European country's single payer programs other than Germany (pop 83,294,633) and the UK (pop 67,736,802).
> For example, 15-20 years ago we had conservatives yelling video games are the devil and they need to be censored and some topics not even touched.
My memory of the 2003 to 2008 time frame is different.
I recall mainstream complaints about GTA 3, released 2001. Famously, Senator Clinton asked the FTC to investigate GTA 3 over the "hot coffee" mod in 2005.
There was also the 2005 California Law [0] that banned the sale of violent video games to minors.
If you have an example of a country with a single program that has more effective outcomes for a population of similar makeup and size, that would be a useful comparison.