I would be shocked. Absolutely shocked... If the savings weren't much, much more.

Health insurance companies are leeches.

What about the shareholders Bob? Who’s looking out for them?

But how am I supposed to keep my employees if they aren't reliant on me for access to healthcare? What am I supposed to do, pay them more? Treat them like human beings?!

*$5.1 Trillion will not go to big businesses and corporations

The US government spends the most per capita for healthcare and that money is used to cover only a minority of citizens.

People are then paying extra for private insurance over that.

Having a governmental monopoly for healthcare is the best because the government can decide how much medications and services cost, the providers don't have a choice since they only have one client and that client's goal isn't to make profit or to make sure others are making profit, its goal is to pay as little as possible.

Is there a study that shows how much potential profit the medical industrial complex may not realize if we made the switch? (Of course in reality, they'd still find a way to get most of "their piece").

Because that's the thing holding it up. Not data-based proof points, or public opinion that universal healthcare would work, we have that and have had that.

Can't let our health care get in the way of corporate profits.

Oh, but what about those poor middlemen that do so much working keeping prices inflated? What will they do for a living?

Medicare is a giant subsidy to private insurance companies because it removes the disabled and elderly from their rolls. And it's also created a back-end for coding claims that the industry adopts. And even with the more expensive patients, and the burden of designing the whole system, Medicare constantly delivers more care per dollar than the private guys.

So, which party supports it?

Problem being, I'm sure politicians of all stripes have invested heavily in private insurance companies. And those so called administrative fees make it all the more lucrative.

Good luck getting it past all the industry ~~bribery~~ lobbying.

Republicans don't want this, because while they like to claim "blah blah spending this, spending that", it's not actually about reducing spending, it's about punishing the poor(and a wide range of minorities, obviously). So the fact that giving MORE people access to healthcare would cost much LESS money in the end, means fuck all to them. Their only goal is maximizing the suffering of anyone who ain't them, and convincing their base that someone else is the cause of all of their troubles.

Democrats meanwhile, have no interest in doing this either, since most of them aren't even remotely progressives(whether they pretend to be or not), and like the Republicans, it doesn't do much to line their pockets. As long as they can keep everyone just fucked over enough, while pretending to support progressive policies, the can keep pointing at the Republicans as boogeymen, saying "look, see what the right wants to keep from you? Better vote for us, or you'll get trump again. ThIs iS THe mOSt imPOrTAnt elEcTIon oF yOUr lIfe." But as soon as you vote them in, where does all of that support for those progressive policies go? POOF Never to be spoken of again, until next election, because they didn't ever really support such policies in the first place.

So sure, I'm not going to go so far as to say that both sides are the same. Because clearly one side at least isn't trying to bring back literal Nazis. But make no mistake, even if you have to vote Democrat to desperately keep MAGA out of power, the Democrats are not your friend. Democrats are not leftists. The are center right, at best. It's just the Republicans have completely lost the plot, and ran so far to the right, that everyone else looks to be left by comparison.