Comment by jmull

There’s essentially zero doubt that universal healthcare would save over $1T per year.

How do we know? The experiment has been done multiple times, all over the world. In the worst case (Sweden), healthcare is a bit short of $5K per capita per year, or around $1.7T. We’ve actually got a nice margin to achieve $1T, even if we remain the worst.

I agree health care reform is hard, though. We have a clear roadmap on how it can work a lot better. But what’s the political path forward?

As someone who’s actually fiscally conservative, single-payer universal healthcare is an absolute no-brainer, but, ironically, the people who call themselves fiscal conservatives will fight it to the death (well, not that ironic — at this point we all understand that, in politics, what groups purport to believe and what they actually believe have little to do with each other).