Our healthcare system, which is already horribly broken, cannot be left to languish further just when a larger portion of us need it the most.

Few issues point out misconceptions surrounding our economy and monetary system as clearly as healthcare does. What if all of the workers dedicated to nothing more than obtaining payment from insurance companies and all those who process those payment requests for those companies were suddenly available to be retrained into "productive" work?

While our idiot politicians and deceptive economists continually focus on how to "pay for" universal single-payer healthcare the truth remains that adopting it would be "deflationary" in that it would involuntarily unemploy a million workers in both healthcare and insurance-related jobs. Our various governments already pay enough of total healthcare expenses via Medicare, Medicaid, VA, etc. to fully fund "ALL" healthcare in the US.

We already know that countries that have adopted some form of single-payer system have much better outcomes at lower costs. We simply have not been able to see past our collective noses to understand how those seemingly contradictory facts came about. Most of those also fully fund or largely subsidize education, with many providing living expenses for those studying health related courses.

You can't use numbers related to "workforce participation" unless you also include non-productive work, even if that pays very well. The money is always available for anything that can be resourced and that contributes to productivity.