If 80% of America has health insurance, and if the average family is 4 people, and if a family policy costs 15 grand, then America is spending about a trillion a year on medical coverage, or about 3700 a person per year on average, a manageable number.
So, the real problem is not the average cost per person. The real problem is the guy who has a million dollar illness versus the hundreds who have no illness at all that year and cost nothing to anybody, including themselves.
And giving full authority to the government will solve that? If you think it’s expensive now, wait until then. I, for one, do not support that.