Medicare for all would cost more than what we are paying now. We need to stop avoiding this fact.

[DirkGently]

186. So you've helped them by making up a theoretical increased cost?

Come ON now. That's just pretty silly. Off the top of my head, it's widely understood that preventative care, which the un and under-insured routinely skip, generally saves money in the long run. Get someone to a dentist, and they may not need dental surgery. Get someone on a diet, and they might not end up on dialysis.

And so on. In fact, that's another entire issue under our present system. Private insurers pay most readily for expensive procedures and testing, so the modern hospital experience is generally an endless stream of specialists with separate bills for separate treatments. A more generalized approach, without the fear of corporate red-lining of every non-critical expense, would increase efficiency if anything.

Surely you're not claiming employer-run private insurance is a better system than the ones all over the world that currently cost less than ours on the basis of a wild supposition like this?