How do they pay for that that? The trick with Medicaid is the State programs.
Double the payroll tax on each end? No one will work if they lose that much and no one will hire if that is the tariff.
Right now, we have the bots saying all is well with zer0care. It is going to take the next 3 years for everyone to hate it. We lose all of 2014 to the Midterms and all of 2016 to the General. Hillary (I think she’s a lock due to the donk machine & amnesty+anchor babies) will need the first 2 years of her first term to engineer a donk House. In order to get the retirees on board, it will have to be Medicaid, probably renamed. That means the next three elections will be huge fights for Democrat control at the State levels in order to have the States on board for participation in Single Payer. At first, it will piggyback on present Medicaid with State participation. The talking point will be : “We have to do _something_.”
2020, Hillary’s second term, will be the main fight for Single Payer IF they manage to take total control of Congress AND a majority of States.
But, it is inevitable. It will be at least 2030 before they are so broke they begin to talk about limited privatization of health insurance & healthcare. God knows what sort of mess we will have by then.
Of course, who knows? Hillary could have a stroke, and the donks will fight it out for either the first woman, the first Hispanic or the first out gay. At that point, “what difference does it make?”
I will probably have assumed ambient temperature somewhere along that timeline.