> More realistically we have to bring the costs of healthcare down
Given that places where government pays for everyone's healthcare, in the developed world, get compsrsvle outcomes at much lower per capita and per GDP cost than the US system, I don't see that an idea opposed to universal healthcare so much as a motivation for it.
You're assuming they have much lower costs because of socialized medicine -- that's not necessarily the case.
But my broader point is just that universal health care is not an honest description of what it is, and our costs are so great we're unlikely to ever implement such a wealth transfer.
It's a lot less pie-in-the-sky IMHO to focus on bringing costs down. UHC could help in some ways but it's a broad assumption to make that if say Medicare paid for everything prices would just automatically start to drop.
Given that places where government pays for everyone's healthcare, in the developed world, get compsrsvle outcomes at much lower per capita and per GDP cost than the US system, I don't see that an idea opposed to universal healthcare so much as a motivation for it.