>National Health Insurance has failed in every country in which it has been tried. All it winds up being is a way to ration medical services. >People die while on a waiting list....

To see good doctors there is always a waiting list no matter if you are in US or Somalia, no matter whether the healthcare system is nationalized or not.
For organ receptors there is always a waiting list no matter where you live.

Oh, it happened that I reconstructed my ACL a while ago and remember by looking at the bills that the insurance would always get a hefty discount from the provider. Im sure if I were to pay from my pocket for those expenses, I would have gotten the very same generous discount....