Hey College Republicans, Single-Payer will set Prices and Pay for Health Care! Motivating Lower Prices a Free Market Fantasy.

It's funny how something you come across earlier in the day comes up again later and oddly ties everything neatly together.

PolitiFact did a great job explaining the concept of a "single-payer" health care system. This line stood out for me, and should really be mentioned every time a Democrat talks about the issue:

According to the group Physicians for a National Health Program, a single-payer national health insurance system is one in which a single public or quasi-public agency sets prices and pays for health care, but the delivery of care remains largely in private hands.

Then I came across this MSNBC interview with a "college Republican," where Mr. Smarty pants confidently pushed a private free market system, claiming only competition will magically lower prices. He had no idea a public agency would step in and set national prices for every kind of treatment. Do conservatives do any research at all, ever: