Yes, as long as it is modelled after the single payer healthcare system we had in Sweden. The math has been done and it didn’t raise Swedish net taxes by 15%. Not when you enter into the equation all the ER costs for people just hunting for renewel of med prescriptions and all the other non-emergency shit that goes through our ERs. It eliminates the need for free clinics privately supported by people otherwise paying taxes—and similar non-profits desperately trying to take up the slack of our terrible system. And think of this: No longer would there be slip and fall cases, teams on the freeway causing accidents for insurance money, the plethora of bulllshit legal cases involving healthcare scams that cost every taxpayer a bundle. There are no multi-million dollar fraudulent workman’s comp cases and similar scams that ruin small businesses in a country with decent single payer healthcare. When everyone is covered from cradle to grave by good, easily accessable healthcare, there is no need for these things and the huge portion of the legal profession known as “ambulance chasing”. And don’t forget how expensive it is to not be pro-active in medicine. Here, the uninsured must wait until they are in crisis before they go to the ER for free healthcare ultimately paid for by the taxpayer. People who receive healthcare all their lives are much healthier and rarely incur the costs of an emergency. Maintenance and pro-activity is the name of the game in good medicine and much less costly —and as a doctor in a big city, you know that.