The government is clinging to an ideology-driven approach to health care.  It's just like how the rightwing in the US clings to their equally ideological approach against any universal health care.  The problem is the size of health care is just too huge for central management, and a lot of patients and doctors are being shortchanged by the system's centrally-planned rationing!  It is the same reason that the USSR crumbled - the central planners do not have the intimate knowledge, market pressure and accountability to manage everything from their ivory tower, leading to rationing.  Instead we need to look at more successful health care systems in the EU, which are all hybrids of public-private.  We need to step away from the rigid ideology and compromise pragmatically.  I believe that means paring the system down so that only major catastrophic health care remain single payer universal.  Anything costing under $1000 should be made private, with a medicaid program for the destitute.