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10. The law of large numbers when it applies to insurance, look it up.

It explains why you would pay FAR less in taxes for Medicare for All than you would pay for private insurance coverage, for the same level of overhead and health care insurance coverage.

But then there's another reason why Medicare for All, aka single payer, would be cheaper: Medicare runs at a 3% overhead, versus 20-30% for private corporation-based insurance.

So, no, you won't have to pay the same amount in taxes for a single payer system as you will for private health insurance, for the same level of coverage. Not even close.

Right now, today, people pay less per capita in other countries for single payer insurance than we do here. So I would rather pay taxes or Medicare for All.


Edited to add: but in the end, none of this answers the question I posed.