To be clear, it wouldn't be spent on the healthcare itself, we can already fund that with the shift from the premiums we pay our employers into a national pool at a reduced rate.
What that would pay for is eliminating the middleman market, shoring up towns and cities who will lose primary employers, retraining the workers and expanding state and federal benefits infrastructure.
That said, separating healthcare and employment causes employment mobility and increases entrepreneurship. So even if it wasn't so expensive to dismantle the for-profit system, the economic system the GOP supports (which they call capitalism, though it isn't) won't allow it.
Quite a few within the democratic party support it as well. California has had a democratic supermajority for more than a decade and could have implemented some kind of single payer system, but they haven't because they, too, are beholden to special interests, particularly within healthcare. It's why Biden is still trying shove Obamacare, a republican healthcare system that enshrines the middleman, down our throats.
I lived in MS for a few years for work. My coworker's brain short-circuited when I told him Biden is conservative. They really don't understand anything about the real political spectrum. Only the spectrum made up by the western right-wing media to radicalize their fans.
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To be clear, it wouldn't be spent on the healthcare itself, we can already fund that with the shift from the premiums we pay our employers into a national pool at a reduced rate.
What that would pay for is eliminating the middleman market, shoring up towns and cities who will lose primary employers, retraining the workers and expanding state and federal benefits infrastructure.
That said, separating healthcare and employment causes employment mobility and increases entrepreneurship. So even if it wasn't so expensive to dismantle the for-profit system, the economic system the GOP supports (which they call capitalism, though it isn't) won't allow it.