As millions face a steep rise in insurance costs, lawmakers continue a long battle over who should pay for health care

[MichMan]

7. The main premise of the OP was "who should pay for health care"

Single payer is certainly something to consider.

If it is government with a single payer system, since we run annual deficits, it would just get added to the debt, so the ones paying it would be future taxpayers. Some of whom aren't even born yet. That is also who would be paying the current ACA subsidies.

Most all other countries with a single payer health care pay for it with a national 15-20% VAT. I could be wrong, but I don't see any politician here advocating for something regressive like that. If you are a senior with Medicare, unless you are exempted from it, that also means you would be paying a VAT on everything you bought just to keep the same insurance you already have.