[central_va]

Re-read that sentence again, because it’s vitally important. Even if every income tax in America were doubled, a move that would cripple the economy, there still wouldn’t be enough money to pay for the liberal pipe dream.

It is also wrong. Single payer eliminates private HC insurance premiums which will save the average family almost $1,000/mo. Now of course this will probably be sucked up as new payroll taxes BUT THE RIGHT WING ECONOMISTS NEVER talk straight about this subject and do us all a disservice.

[xzins]

The 12-20k your employer pays will be diverted to bureaucracies where the money will be a tool for power and not for health care. It will go from a ptecisely detailed business to incompetent politicians and hacks who don’t give a fig about accountability. In a bureaucratic system with zero competition costs must rise or coverage must fall. I imagine both taking place.