Bingo. The problem with healthcare-for-all is it's impossible to pay for without raising taxes across the board eventually, regardless of how much the candidates swear that it won't, and the voters know it. If you want European-style healthcare systems, you'll need European-level taxation.
(This is also why UBI won't ever get off the ground; voters aren't stupid. All that money has got to come from somewhere.)
Raising taxes while eliminating healthcare premiums.
Replacing a system designed to extract as much as possible from people needing medical help in order to enrich corporations with a system optimized for cost and efficiency.
Insurance is already based on paying for other people’s expenses except that it’s optimized for the profit of the ones running the scheme.
So how do we pay for Medicare for all?
We take 80% of the money, return it to the payers, and pay with the rest, in the form of taxes.
I wouldn’t mind a slight increase in taxes in exchange of knowing that I and nobody else has to ever be afraid to go to the doctor because they can’t afford it.
Ambulance rides don’t need to cost $3000, or a night at the hospital $1000.
Once we have one huge entity to negotiate pricing for everyone (about the only thing insurance companies have going on for them), we won’t have to be paying 10x to 100x what the services cost to provide.
Or should we continue sacrificing human lives and health to the altar of quarterly profits for a handful of people?
Healthcare is a solved problem in all first world countries. Trying to spin it into something else is insulting.
People are not stupid and propaganda has its limits.
(This is also why UBI won't ever get off the ground; voters aren't stupid. All that money has got to come from somewhere.)