Ok, point taken, but I meant it in the sense of an NHS type system, where government directly provides services, which is what a lot of single payer advocates want (and an idea I like as well).  In the strict sense you're addressing, it's another version of 'government insurance,' as is medicare, medicaid, the public option, etc., whether alongside private insurance or instead of it.  I don't see any broad sort of 'instead of it' support in this country, do you?  I don't see anything in the bill that's detrimental to people at the expense of industry, and nothing that rules out expansion of some sort of government insurance in some permutation.

Maybe we can eventually make language a complete impediment to understanding. -Hobbes