Philosophical Productive Discussion

[benji]

It wasn't forced into it, it was propagandized into it

Yes, it was forced into it. The courts said that they had to allow Canadians to privately purchase outside the monopoly because the monopoly could not supply everyone with health care. This was, of course, an obvious result as this is inherently the nature of central planning.

There is no data that supports the idea that private healthcare is superior to single payer anywhere on earth.
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One thing I've learned is that most problems we've faced have had studies done in order to hash out what the best way to achieve this or that is. Obviously these aren't set in stone and are not gospel, but for me, scientific evidence of the best possible outcome is an incredibly strong indicator of which way to go, even if it clashes with previously held beliefs.

You are rejecting all the scientific evidence to maintain your beliefs both in this and in the education topic. Again, no country you will want to point to has single-payer. That's the first piece of evidence. We can go beyond that to know why this is the case, because a single monopoly corporation over a sector does not work as well as the market. This is why we do not have a monopoly corporation that controls the entire food sector, when people have tried this it has been only famine. An additional piece of evidence you might want to not reject would again be how you're condemning a system in which the size of monopoly control over the sector as you advocate has increased exponentially. Like in education if the expansion of what you desire is not achieving results you may want to reconsider your methods.

edit: To be more pointed, neither a safety net nor a parasitic welfare state is socialism.