Here's why creating single-payer health care in America is so hard

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4. When they talk about the tax increase necessary for single-payer, they always omit

the savings from not forking over thousands of dollars to insurance companies in premiums and more thousands of dollars in uncovered expenses because of deductibles. I can't imagine anyone would end up paying more for single-payer. One of the big reasons I don't get the reluctance to have everyone covered, no questions asked, is that insured people do not travel around in a bubble that protects them from illness. They can be in line at the post office and have a person with undiagnosed tuberculosis cough all over them. There are lots and lots of people still uninsured or who won't go to the doctor because of deductibles.