So where will the extra $16 trillion come from to pay for Sanders' plan?

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65. May be but keep in mind

that a lot of Americans don't "wait a long time" for health services, they wait for-ever because they can't afford it.

Certainly there can be long wait times in Canada for elective medical procedures (urgent cases are attended to very quickly; I should know as I've had one and know what happens to others). An example would be hip replacement surgery - have an arthritic hip condition which is painful and causes moderate loss in mobility and you will probably wait longer than you would like but break a hip and you are attended to v quickly especially if elderly (my mother had that happen twice).

My point is, in a single payer system, the overall level of service generally relates fairly closely to the amount of funding government (i.e. the single payer) is willing to put into it. In Canada that decision is based generally on need vs tax levels. If the US or state governments spent the total amount now spent by government plus individual and employer payments on a single payer system, the US would likely have the best medical care available in the world for all its citizens.

Actually I'm a bit surprised that US employers aren't more supportive of single payer because it would reduce or maybe eliminate their health care insurance payments.