You can use scare arguments all you want but our system is more expensive and provides inferior access AND an inferior level of care.
This is written as if it was a positive. So I was stuck wondering if this was sarcastic or if it was a typo. Finally settling on sarcastic.
It's not sarcastic at all.
The "scare arguments" EnigmaHat was talking about are the scare arguments about universal health care. EnigmaHat just pointed out all the existing flaws in the US system as a counterpoint to the scare arguments. "our system is terrible" was EnigmaHats counterpoint to some theoretical "what if" argument about how single-payer will turn USA into the USSR.
The scare arguments in this debate are akin to me telling you not to brush your teeth because the vibrations will cause all yout teeth to shatter and fall out. It is in fact a good counterpoint to point out that plenty of other people brush their teeth every day without that happening, so the scare arguments are just bogus.
In a similar sense, there's a whole world of examples of single-payer systems and they
all have lower costs per patient and decent outcomes compared to the US system. Some hypothetical Blade-Runner/Gattaca style dystopia from having single-payer health care is just as ludicrous as the tooth brushing teeth explosion thing.