If you think that the Congress in 2009/2010 would have passed Single Payer legislation

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58. The single-payer whiners never bother to mention how it would be paid for.

In 2009 US healthcare costs were estimated at $2.7 trillion, with about a third paid by state and local governments, another third paid by private insurance, and the rest paid by individuals. Almost 59 million people weren't covered at all. Single payer would mean that the government would at least have to take on more than an additional $trillion in spending, that which is paid now by insurance companies plus the cost of covering the currently uninsured. Obama came in with a deficit of a trillion and the economy in free fall. Many Democrats insisted that healthcare reform be paid for, which it was with cuts to Medicare Advantage and some small tax increases on providers. The cost of ACA was estimated at $900 billion over ten years. The cost of single-payer would have been between 10 and 20 times that much. The folks crying about not getting single payer need to explain a way to pay those costs if they want to have any credibility.