@Ak49er: The VA is not an appropriate example to support your argument because that was not the problem for the VA.

The single-payer system you describe is the exact same one we use to pay for all of our public services, from schools to roads to libraries to police to firefighters to the military, and every public agency there is.

The conclusion of your arguments against a single-payer system is that the United States is not capable of doing what almost the entire rest of the world has and does manage to do.