Kari Medicare is going broke because of the same escalating health care costs. They pay doctors pennies, so increasing numbers no longer take it.
So where is a single payer system going to come from. The USA has a serious crisis of access to healthcare looming and neither the Dems nor the GOP are addressing it.
In fact too many people who opine are people like you who know nothing on this topic.
What that will lead to will be those with employer based health insurance, who will get quality care, and those who lack this given inferior Medicaid level plans. And even for the employer plans, more of the rank and file will be forced into high deductible plans as they cannot afford to assume a higher % of the premium costs!
The vast majority of those who have been enrolled receive subsidies. Rather than having to pay the bulk of the premium increases the government will have to pay. Note that the Feds didn't plan to incur this costs indefinitely, so that the states will have to assume their share of these costs.
Now imagine states, already burdened with out of control retiree costs, now having to assume additional out of control healthcare costs for those who receive subsidies.
And at the Federal level we have the Social Security ticking time bomb.
Don't buy Hillary's political pandering that only the super rich will be taxed for this, or the corporations. That latter have lobbies to protect their interests, and there aren't enough super rich to cover the incremental costs of these programs.
Don't make me laugh at the fine. The kids have already worked out that the fine will be equivalent to 2 month's premium, so they are still ahead of the game. Its the older and sicker population that will buy into this, unless they get subsidies, and this makes a bad situation even worse!