I'm struggling to see what you hope to accomplish with your posts other than being pedantic. Dems/the left chanting "single payer!" is pretty different from "death panel" BS because even if it reflects an ignorance of the various flavors of those sorts of health systems, as Sol mentioned, those systems still all share qualities that are implicit in the expectation of those "single payer" advocates.
In other words, we all know that those wanting a single payer system would almost universally be fine with a different structure that still accomplishes the same basic goals, so getting up in arms that they don't know the proper names for each of the options is somewhat pointless. That said, I do expect congressional representatives to be more nuanced in their policy-making, which they frequently aren't. But I think it's clear the "death panel" crew is still substantially more disingenuous and very obviously would oppose modeling ourselves after any of the countries mentioned.
Pointless? If people believe the only choices are single payer or the current US status quo all we're going to get is either single player or the US status quo. One can only chose between options one knows/understands. To point out there are more options is not pedantic but rather an expansion of the choice universe and I fail to see how that is anything but a good thing.
I would have gone on to address universal but predictably the people I upset by pointing out their errors will try and shift the goal posts, ad hoc rescue...basically, whatever it takes not to just say, "Hey! I was wrong. Thanks for showing me more choices." I'm all for a universal coverage system but I also am endlessly trying to educate Americans there's more choices out there.
Also, to thinking if a system is largely tax funded it is
de facto "single payer." Wrong. "Single payer" means there's only one entity that people bill, i.e. the government. Medicare, for example, is a single payer. Folks can opt out of straight Medicare though, and take a Medicare Advantaged plan, and those folks don't participate in that single payer system as Medicare pays the insurance companies and the insurance companies become the payers. It's an important difference as all those Medicare Advantaged plans differ from each other, i.e. consumer choice and product differentiation is offered. That's a key thing in Bismarck systems, namely that within the floor set by the government, plans can be different from each other.
So apparently I'm a bad guy here/somehow wrong/a pedant for introducing some new facts. Interesting.